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Background
At the time, UNRWA ran 221 of more than 600 primary and secondary schools in the Gaza Strip, educating some 200,000 children between the ages of 6 and 15. The Gaza Strip has been ruled by Hamas since it seized control of the enclave in June 2007 by defeating Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces.

According to the Associated Press, "Hamas has been trying to cement control over Gaza, while the U.N. agency is increasingly emerging as a shadow government, providing services to some 1 million of Gaza's 1.4 million people". The the agencys chief in Gaza, John Ging,

Another factor contributing to the hostile reaction to the proposal to teach Palestinian children about the Holocaust is tonight to be Israeli Nakba denial.

That summer Israel's education minister, Gideon Saar, decided to delete references to the word "naqba" (usually spelled "Nakba") from textbooks for Palestinian citizens of Israel Arab third-graders in Israel

The Holocaust is not taught in U.N.-run schools for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, nor is it taught in Palestinian government schools in the West Bank or Gaza.

= Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip =

Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip has been practiced by the Hamas Administration since it assumed power in 2007. The punishment is given for offenses such as crimes against Islamic law, land sales to Israelis, and treason. The Hamas administration of the Gaza Strip inherited the Palestinian National Authority code of law, which included the death penalty for several kinds of offenses, but while the Palestinian administration in Ramallah has refrained from executing capital punishments, death sentences are periodically performed by Hamas.

Effect of the Fatah-Hamas schism
Palestinian law requires approval from the President of the Palestinian National Authority for the death penalty to be carried out (currently Mahmoud Abbas, elected 2005). But the semi autonomous Hamas government in the Gaza Strip often disregarded this requirement.

After Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election there was a violent schism between Fatah and Hamas which led to a semi autonomous Hamas Government Gaza Strip and an Abbas appointed Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank.

History
According to an Amnesty International report, 23 Palestinians were executed in the Gaza Strip by Hamas during the 2014 conflict with Israel. Amnesty claimed that Hamas used the cover of 2014 Gaza war to carry out summary executions, including to “settle scores” against opponents under the pretext they were “collaborators with Israel”.

According to Amnesty, 23 Palestinians were executed by Hamas in the course of the 2014 conflict - 16 of them imprisoned from before the conflict. From among the executed, 6 were killed by a firing squad outside a mosque in front of hundreds of spectators including children.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported in December 2015 that Hamas issued nine death sentences in 2015. Hamas had sentenced four Gazans to death during the first weeks of 2016, all on suspicion of spying.

In February 2016, the armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out execution of Mahmoud Ishtiwi - one of the group’s leading commanders, under allegations of gay sex and theft. Ishtiwi left two wives and three children.

In May 2016, Hamas reportedly executed three men by firing squad and hanging. The execution was performed in the al-Katiba prison. The executed men were convicted for murder. Reportedly, the execution defied protests from the United Nations and "will likely" deepen tensions with the Palestinian government in the West Bank. Hamas defied an agreement with Fatah, the ruling party in the West Bank, by carrying out the executions without the approval of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas later announced that 13 additional prisoners are to be executed.

In April 2017, it was reported that three Palestinians were executed by Hamas in Gaza Strip over alleged collaboration with Israel. Reportedly, the men were hanged at a Hamas police compound, as dozens of Hamas leaders and officials watched the killing.

On 4 September 2022, Hamas announced it had executed five men, including two men condemned over collaboration with the occupation (Israel), and three others in criminal cases. A a resident of Khan Younis born 1968 was convicted of supplying Israel in 1991 with “information on men of the resistance, their residence… and the location of rocket launchpads”; a second man, born 1978, was for supplying Israel in 2001 with intelligence “that led to the targeting and martyrdom of citizens” by Israeli forces, according to Hamas. The other three men had been convicted for murder (including Murad Abu Zeid ). According to B'Tselem, Hamas courts handed down 13 death sentences in January-August 2022, but had not carried out any since 2017.

Examples of executed people
Note: this list is incomplete.

Mahmoud Eshtewi
Mahmoud Eshtewi (محمود رشدي اشتيوي, sometimes spelled "Mahmoud Ishtiwi")

The Al Qassam Brigades released a statement claiming that Eshweti had been executed by firing squad for, "his behavioral and moral transgressions that he confessed to".

unnamed “moral and behavioral violations”

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Killings by non-government groups in Gaza
There have been multiple occasions when Palestinians have committed murders that in some ways resemble executions workout the permission of any formal government. These are often cases of armed militant groups  killing individuals whom they suspect of being informants or otherwise perceive as traitors.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Human Rights Watch…

Lions Den informant in Nablus
The Lions' Den  militant group in Nablus killed one of their members who they accused of passing information to the Israeli authorities that led to the deaths of multiple members of the group. In a video recorded before he was killed he said that Shin Bet had blackmailed him using a video of him having sex with another man.

Suspected Vigilantes killings
There has been at least one murder in Palestine that appears to be of a vigilante nature. This is the only well-documented case of a possible execution of an LGBT person in Palestine who was widely known to be LGBT before their death.

There was also a murder of a Druze lesbian in northern Israel. But the Druze are an Israeli minority who do not generally identify as Palestinian and the main suspects were her own brothers, making it more akin to an honour killing or other family violence than a vigilante execution.

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health manages healthcare in the West Bank.

The ministry, one of Palestine's four key healthcare providers along with Military Medical Services, UNRWA, NGOs, and private sector, operates 27 hospitals and 61% of hospital beds in Palestine.

As of 2023, Dr. Mai al-Kaila is the Health Minister.

List of ministers of health
The following is the list of health ministers of the Palestinian National Authority:

Minister of Health
After the Battle of Gaza and the dissolution of the unity government on June 14, 2007, by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Naim became Health Minister of the Gaza Strip in the First Haniyeh Government.

Following Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, Naim, who holds a degree in medicine from Germany and a PhD in surgery, was named Minister of Health. As minister, Naim replaced Fatah-affiliated hospital directors and medical staff with Hamas-aligned individuals. One affected professional, Jomaa Alsaqqa, a 20-year surgeon at al-Shifa Hospital, was terminated for his Fatah support. He claims to have been arrested and assaulted by Hamas.

He stepped down in 2012 and became the head of the Council on International Relations in Gaza.

Israel–Hamas war
In October 2023, while acting as Hamas's representative in Moscow, Basem participated in a delegation led by senior Hamas member Moussa Abu Marzouk to Moscow.

In an interview with Sky News, following the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Naim asserted that Hamas did not kill civilians, despite evidence to the contrary. Likewise in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia, Naim repeated that Hamas fighters haven't committed any crimes. In both cases, interviewers confronted Naim with evidence that hundreds of civilians had been killed in the October 7 attack.

In another interview with Sky News on 16 October, Naim reiterated that no Israeli civilians were killed and informed that the status of the 199 civilians held hostage remains uncertain. In a confrontational interview, he emphasized the difficulty of ascertaining their well-being due to the intense bombardment in Gaza. Naim further stated, "We have communicated to all intermediaries our willingness to release all civilian hostages once the aggression against our people ceases".

In 2024 the Washington Post named Naim among key spreaders of disinformation online about the Hamas attack against Israel.

Personal life
Naim holds a degree in medicine from Germany and a PhD in surgery. He has worked at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. His eldest son was a member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and was killed at the age of 17 during an Israeli incursion in Shuja'iyya.

Naim has a large following on social media where he often posts anti-Israel and pro-BDS messages. Naim has condemned terror attacks against Jews that occurred in the United States and Germany several times.