Hamas says executed Palestinians suspected of spying for Israel August 7, 2014 The Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hamas-says-executed-Palestinians-suspected-as-spying-for-Israel-370429 GAZA - Hamas said on Thursday it had executed several Palestinians on suspicion of helping Israeli forces during the month-long Gaza conflict. The spies were executed after they were caught red-handedly informing on the whereabouts of the resistance (or) disrupting the work of resistance men and defusing ambushes prepared against the enemy, Al-Majd, a pro-Hamas website, quoted an unnamed member of the Islamist group's security services as saying. It did not elaborate on the number of people executed. Meanwhile, Palestinian newspaper al-Quds reported that Hamas has executed its former spokesman Ayman Taha, who was arrested on suspicion of spying for an Arab country and financial corruption. According to the report, a firing squad executed Taha in Gaza on Monday.