Islam Shahwan, the spokesman for Hamas Interior Ministry, said on Thursday that the campaign to urge people feeding information to Tel Aviv to surrender willingly in exchange for amnesty has been achieving great goals.

He said the move was aimed at raising people’s awareness in security matters and promoting unity of Palestinians.

Hamas, which won elections in 2006 and took full control of this coastal enclave in 2007, has started a “cleansing” campaign for stopping those who serve as the eyes of the Israeli regime in Gaza.

As a result of the campaign, Shahwan said, the issue of spying for the Zionist regime has been eliminated at a great level.

Hamas officials are optimistic to put an end to Israel’s espionage campaign in the Gaza Strip.

In mid-March, Hamas Interior Ministry warned those spying for the Israeli regime that they would be pursued without mercy if they did not turn themselves in by April 11.

On April 6, Hamas said that its security forces have arrested a number of people on suspicion of espionage for certain Western and Arab spy agencies in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas Interior Ministry website quoted Mohammed Lafi, an internal security chief, as saying that “half of them have confessed to being collaborators.”

“The Gaza Strip is swarming with Western intelligence agencies, such as the American, British, French and German services,” Lafi said, adding that certain Arab spy agencies were also operating in Gaza. “They all target Gaza and Hamas,” he stated.

Lafi added that Hamas had a “list of collaborators who will be arrested once the time for them to repent has run out.”

The Hamas official also cautioned against alleged Palestinian “collaborators” feeding information to foreign spying agencies.