Hamas is struggling to cope with evidence linking its security forces to tortures and summary executions, as reports spread that three Palestinians were recently executed on the basis of “confessions” given under coercion. The Iranian proxy, which controls the Gaza Strip, was criticized over the abuses by Human Rights Watch. Watchdog groups have long called for human rights organizations such as HRW to take official notice of Hamas’s human rights violations in the face of those groups’ “strident political advocacy” against Israel.

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