The interior ministry in the de facto Hamas government, which rules the Gaza Strip, announced Monday that it will publically execute Palestinians convicted for being collaborators with Israel.

Fathi Hammad, the Hamas minister of interior, said in a press statement published on the ministry's website that any Palestinian from Gaza convicted for being a collaborator with Israel will be executed in public.

"The coming future would witness an execution of collaborators with Israel in front of the public in order to be an example to everyone," said Hammad, referring to 11 execution that the Hamas government had carried out in five years.

Hamas had violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 following weeks of infighting with the security forces of secular President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah Party's militants.

The 11 cases of execution were made by Hamas de facto government without gaining the approval of Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

Hammad considered the question of collaboration with Israel as the "battle of brains," vowing that his ministry will keep unveiling those collaborators, adding that his ministry recently arrested dozens of them.

"In this respect we work in silence. It doesn't need the collaborator more than two hours to confess mainly when he is faced by tangible evidences, and this shows how professional our internal security apparatuses are," said Hammad.

He revealed that his security apparatuses are following special methods "that we always try to develop it, in order to hunt the collaborators."

The Hamas movement said that the Israeli interior security "is working round the clock to recruit dozens of Palestinians using their social and financial problems.