A Hamas operative in front of a building destroyed by Israel in the Gaza Strip. (Credit: AFP archive photo)
A military court in the Gaza Strip convicted six people of "collaboration" with Israel on Monday, sentencing two of them to death.
The court said in a statement the death sentences would be carried out "one by firing squad and the other by hanging."
It added the four others were handed "life sentences with hard labor," which, in Gaza, amounts to 25 years.
Those convicted were not identified by officials in the Palestinian territory, which has been run by the Islamist group Hamas since 2007, nor were details of their cases published.
Under Palestinian law, a death sentence requires the approval of the president of the Palestinian Authority, which is headquartered in the occupied West Bank.
But Hamas has repeatedly ignored this law and executed five people for "collaboration" in September.
These executions, condemned by the United Nations Human Rights Office, were the first in the coastal territory in more than five years.
At the time, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch decried the death penalty as "a barbaric practice that has no place in the modern world."
Some 2.3 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip, which is under a crippling Israeli-led blockade.
Israel and militant groups in Gaza have fought several wars over the past 15 years, including three days of cross-border violence in August that killed 49 Palestinians.
A military court in the Gaza Strip convicted six people of "collaboration" with Israel on Monday, sentencing two of them to death.
The court said in a statement the death sentences would be carried out "one by firing squad and the other by hanging."
It added the four others were handed "life sentences with hard labor," which, in...