Okay, so I've had time to look into the criminal justice system 7/10 free a bit, and it's quite interesting.
So homosexuality is dealt with by criminal courts, not Sharia law. It's punishable by up to 10 years prison, under law that we created in the 1930's (go us...). That's not to say things so miserable and dangerous for gay people in Gaza, there were certainly harassment, and increase the risk of honour killings. But it wasn't capital offence, and as I've said before, videos purporting to be Gaza to show Isis in Iraq instead.
There was a functioning criminal justice system, I'll be not as independent as it should have been, and with less emphasis on rights of appeal and human rights than we would like. Shari's law was a personal disputes and family dispute not the criminal law.
They did have the death penalty, Which was mostly used for either murder or collaboration with Israel (often where that resulted in airstrikes killing people). Occasionally for drug trafficking. The rate at which they executed people was higher than the USA, but lower than places like Saudi and Iran. It was considered mid-tier. There was a full judicial process and there were prisons etc. The appeals process was considered politically motivated and lacking independence however. So whilst collaborators previously probably would have been executed, it would have been after a judicial process, albeit not one that would pass our tests for fairness.
For women's rights, again, it wasn't amazing, but it's not Saudi or the Taliban! Pressure to wear hijab comes from families, not law though same government offices mandated it.
Religious freedom was poor but as long as they kept a low profile Christians were tolerated. They were not expected to wear hijab, even in government offices that mandated it.
Of course what goes on officially and what goes under the radar can be different things. Informal/family pressure and abuse can often be far more a problem.
It clearly wasn't an oasis of enlightenment, but it wasn't the intolerant hellhole comparable to the Taliban that some people make out.
The consensus seems to be that Hamas may have preferred to be more conservative, but in doing so would have risked alienating more liberal elements of society, so took a pragmatic decision to not be too extreme, to keep a better hold on power.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting. I wouldn't have been rushing to live there, but it wasn't quite as hard long as I thought.