Jul 28, 2008
The Palestinian security forces have arrested Monday in the West Bank more than fifty members of the Islamist movement Hamas,
The Palestinian security forces have arrested Monday in the West Bank more than fifty members of the Islamist movement Hamas, which carried out a wave of arrests in Gaza after a bomb attack Friday evening, said a senior Palestinian.The forces of President Mahmoud Abbas have arrested these people in Nablus and in locations around the city of the northern West Bank, said the official, stressing they were "suspected of inciting civil disorder." Several local leaders of Hamas and university professors were among those arrested.
The manager has refused to indicate whether these arrests were a response to the wave of arrests in Gaza more than 300 people, members or supporters of Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, conducted during the weekend in the wake of an attack that killed five Hamas activists and a little girl.
Hamas has accused Fatah of being the author, that its leaders have denied. Fatah felt that it resulted from internal conflict with Hamas.
Previously Fatah had arrested 34 members of Hamas in the West Bank at several raids during the weekend, according to a senior security. In Gaza, a senior official of the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam, Sami al-Qichawi, said that the Hamas police had prevented the distribution of daily life and that of two other newspapers, Al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida.
These logs are close to the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mr. Abbas.
"They have given us no reason," said Qichawi, who said that police had seized Hamas newspaper after entering the Gaza Strip through the Erez terminal between the territory and Israel.
The two main Palestinian movements are deeply divided since the seizure of power by Hamas in Gaza in June 2007, but their direct confrontation experienced a lull in recent months.
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