Authorities in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Thursday executed two Palestinians for allegedly collaborating with ’Israel’, the territory’s interior ministry said.

Authorities in the Gaza Strip on Thursday executed two Palestinians for collaborating with 'Israel', the territory's interior ministry said.

"Two collaborators with the Israeli occupation, condemned to death for having given information leading to the martyrdom of two citizens, have been executed," a spokesman told AFP.

He said one of the men, aged 40 and identified by the initials ZR, was shot and the other, AK, aged 30, was hanged in a different location.