A senior official in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement accused Hamas on Sunday of a sweeping campaign to detain members of the group in the Gaza Strip. “They have been searching for Fatah men,” said the official, Ibrahim Abu An Naja, alleging Hamas has been carrying out nightly raids on homes since defeating Fatah forces in the territory in a brief civil war last month.| Good idea -- saves the Israelis time and resources. Make sure the Fatah mooks get the death sentence on twelve systems. |
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said Abu An Naja’s comments were “full of false accusations and lies”. He said Fatah complaints of an arrest campaign were aimed at covering up its own detention of Hamas members in the West Bank, where Abbas’s movement holds sway. Abu Zuhri said hundreds of Hamas men were “in the jails of the Palestinian security services in the West Bank”, including one of its leading figures in the territory, Ahmed Doula. Doula, he said, was rearrested on Thursday, shortly after he was released from a detention centre run by Abbas’s presidential guards.