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Hamas Commander Is Killed By His Own
(New York Times) Diaa Hadid and Majd Al Waheidi - Mahmoud Ishtiwi, 34, was a commander from a family of Hamas loyalists who, during the 2014 war with Israel, was responsible for 1,000 fighters and a network of attack tunnels. Last month, his former comrades executed him with three bullets to the chest. He was accused of moral turpitude, by which Hamas meant homosexuality. On Jan. 21, 2015, Ishtiwi was summoned to an interrogation by Izzedine al-Qassam military intelligence officials who suspected that during the war he had diverted money allocated to his unit for weapons. His sister Samia, 39, said that during a visit to Ishtiwi in prison, he had given her two pages crammed with writing, describing the torture he had received and proclaiming his innocence. His siblings said it listed episodes in which rival commanders had made errors that led to the killing of Qassam fighters in the 2014 war, and it accused them of orchestrating Ishtiwi's detention.