A Palestinian security court sentenced a 22-year-old...

A Palestinian security court sentenced a 22-year-old university student to death by firing squad for giving Israel information that led to a July air raid, which killed a top Muslim militant and 15 others. Akram al-Zatma was detained in August and is the third Palestinian to be sentenced to death for collaboration by the Gaza court in the past seven days.
Zatma was charged with collaborating with a foreign country and causing the deaths of the 16 Palestinians, one a leader of the militant group Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for suicide attacks that have killed scores of Israelis.
"In the name of God, in the name of the Palestinian people, the court sentenced the defendant to death," Abdel Aziz Wadi, a chief military judge, said in court.
There is no right of appeal, but President Yasser Arafat must ratify all death sentences before they are carried out.
Since the Palestinian Authority was formed in 1994 dozens of suspected collaborators have been sentenced to death, but Arafat has commuted some of the sentences to life. Only three executions, two of them for collaboration and one for the rape of a child have been carried out.