A Hamas commander who was executed in February was tortured and then killed after at least one terrorist under his command admitted to having sex with him.

Hamas sources gave few details of the reasons behind the execution at the time, with some saying the Al Qassam Brigades commander was accused of spying for Israel, while an official statement from the Brigades’ military and Islamic judicial committee said only that he was killed for “violating rules and ethics.”

According to a New York Times investigation Mahmoud Ishtiwi – who hailed from a prominent pro-Hamas family and was responsible was for a range of operations, including overseeing weapons smuggling through Hamas’s tunnel network – was initially called in for questioning by Hamas over suspicions he had siphoned off money meant for buying weapons.

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