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| Haniyeh calls on armed men to leave Gaza streets |
| 2007-02-04 |
| A Fatah affiliated National Security Forces officer was killed in the center of Gaza City Saturday evening, apparently at the hands of Hamas gunmen. The incident occured only a few hours after Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas urged gunmen to withdraw from Gaza City's streets, as clashes between Fatah and Hamas militants resumed Saturday across the Gaza Strip in defiance of a truce deal. Also Saturday, Fatah gunmen kidnapped two Hamas militants in the West Bank city of Nablus, one of them the head of the Shari'a faculty at the city's A-Najah University. Earlier Saturday, Interior Minister Saeed Seyam of Hamas said Saturday that senior offficials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed to implement immediately a new cease-fire aimed at stopping the violence. Speaking after talks with Fatah security official Rashid Abu Shbak, Seyam said the two sides agreed to withdraw their gunmen from Gaza streets and rooftops, remove checkpoints, and halt media incitement. Haniyeh said that Gaza City's Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold, sustained $15 million in damage during attacks in recent days by security forces allied with his political rival, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He added that the Hamas-led government would give a grant of $1 million to the university. |
| Posted by:Fred |