GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — With each round of escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian resistance discovers secret agents cooperating with Israel.

The Arabic Post website revealed May 18 that the Security and Protection Unit affiliated with Hamas in Gaza hacked an Israeli intelligence computer and got the names of dozens of collaborators with Israel. It also arrested 43 people in Gaza on charges of spying for Israel. The Hamas-affiliated Shehab Agency news website had reported a day earlier that a number of informants surrendered themselves to the security unit.

Meanwhile, in the besieged enclave, news circulated about the start of trials of the collaborators at a military field court affiliated with the Palestinian Military Justice Commission and established in accordance with the PLO's Revolutionary Penal Law of 1979.

Article 133 of said law stipulates that any Palestinian who conspires with a foreign state or contacts it to incite aggression against the state or to provide the means for such aggression is punished with hard labor. The article specifies that the act is punishable by execution (death penalty) if it has repercussions. “Any Palestinian who conspires with the enemy or contacts it to collaborate with it by any means to achieve the victory over the state is punished by execution,” it adds.