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  A Hamas military court in Gaza sentenced two men to death for drug dealing, the first such verdicts since Hamas took power in 2007. One was to be executed by firing squad and the other was sentenced in absentia; the interior ministry said police had seized $2 million of drugs in January, mostly cannabis and narcotics.

• Sentence9 October 2022🇵🇸 Palestine

  Gaza court sentences a hashish dealer to death

  Gaza's Grand Criminal Court sentenced a man to death by hanging for possessing hashish and 'happy pills' with intent to traffic, a repeat offence. SHAMS said the PA's 2018 drug law did not provide death; PCHR later said Gaza's 2013 law did. It was the first death sentence by that court in a drug case.

• Sentence30 January 2023🇵🇸 Palestine

  Gaza court again sentences a drug trafficker to death

  Gaza's Supreme Criminal Chamber sentenced a 30-year-old man to death by hanging for possessing and trafficking narcotics to Israel. PCHR called it the first death sentence of 2023 and said the number issued since 1994 had reached 281, including 251 in Gaza.

• Sentence25 July 2023🇵🇸 Palestine

  Gaza military courts hand down two more drug death sentences

  Gaza's military appeal and permanent courts sentenced two men to death and eight to life imprisonment in a batch of drug cases. One man was convicted of repeated trafficking under article 29 of the 2013 drug law; the other of importing drugs for trafficking under article 28.