General prosecution affirms death sentence against a killer

A court in the Gaza Strip on Sunday sentenced a man to death for killing two people, Gaza's public prosecutor said. The unidentified man was recently arrested for the murder of a man, and during his trial it emerged that he had sexually assaulted and killed a relative ten years earlier, public prosecutor Ismail Jaber said. In June, Jaber promised to implement death sentences against the perpetrators of high-profile homicides in the Gaza Strip. Gaza courts have handed out over 30 death sentences since 2007, many of them to people convicted of collaborating Israeli security forces.