Palestinian collaborator sentenced to death

The Palestinian Authority security court on Sunday sentenced to death a Palestinian collaborator with Israel in killing the Palestinian Maj. Gen. Masoud Ayyad, one of the cadres of the Fatah Movement in Gaza.

The chairman of the PA security court Col. Abdul Aziz Wadi announced in a session, the sentence of killing by bullet fire the Palestinian convict Khaled al-Akkeh after he was found guilty of conspiring and being involved in killing "martyr Masoud Ayyad," one of the officer of "force no.17" of the security department of the chairman of the Palestinian Authority.

Ayyad was killed on February 13th when Israeli military helicopters rocketed his car which he was riding while passing by near Jabalia camp to the north of Gaza.