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| Hamas holds Fatah chiefs in Gaza eve of key vote |
| 2009-08-09 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas on Friday briefly arrested a number of senior Fatah members in the Gaza Strip a day before the rival secular movement is planning to hold a key leadership vote, Fatah said. Hamas security services arrested and took for questioning several local Fatah leaders, including Ibrahim Abu al-Naja, Zakaria al-Agha and Abdallah Abu Samhadana, Fatah officials said. They were released several hours later, the same official said, requesting not to be named. There was no immediate comment from Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in June 2007 by ousting Fatah forces loyal to president Mahmud Abbas following a week of deadly clashes. The arrests came the evening before Fatah members were scheduled to hold the embattled movement's first internal elections in two decades. Although Hamas had denied Fatah members permission to leave in order to attend the congress in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Fatah said on Friday that members in Gaza will be allowed to vote by proxy. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday the red line is the Palestinian claim on all of Jerusalem, not just the Old City. This is a deliberate insult -- thank you, Barack Obama. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-09 10:34 |