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(2,219 posts)Status of homosexuality[edit]
Homosexuality is illegal within the Authority & many gays have been harassed for being homosexual. The Hamas-controlled Gaza strip has declared homosexuality punishable by death. Hamas cofounder Mahmoud Zahar has said, You in the West do not live like human beings. You do not even live like animals. You accept homosexuality. And now you criticize us?[60]
According to Shaul Ganon of the Israeli based gay rights group, Aguda, "The P.A.'s usual excuse for persecuting gays is to label them collaborators--though I know of two cases in the last three years where people were tried explicitly for being homosexuals,they were both beheaded." Hamas justifies beheadings, beatings, torture and killings of homosexuals with Islamic law or unjustly claim the Homosexuals are collaborators of the enemy. "It's now impossible to be an open gay in the P.A." Ganon says that Islamic law is the main justification for such treatment of homosexuals under the Palestinian Authority.[61]