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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
160 held in Hamas raid
2008-07-27
Palestinian Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip arrested 160 men aligned with the rival Fatah faction yesterday, after an explosion there killed five Hamas gunmen and a girl.

Friday's blast next to a car used by men from the armed wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas killed the girl and three militants. Two others died of wounds in hospital. The blast, the third of its kind in a day, marked one of the biggest flare-ups in internal Gaza violence since Hamas routed the forces of ineffectual Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction to seize control of the territory a year ago.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh convened an emergency cabinet meeting.

Fatah officials said it had no link and blamed it on Hamas infighting.

A group called the Al Awda Brigades, which said it is aligned with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Senior Hamas leader Khalil Al Hayya, whose nephew was killed in the blast and whose oldest son was wounded, vowed to punish those responsible.
"We shall have Dire Revenge™!'
Hamas security forces stormed some 40 offices of Fatah throughout the Gaza Strip, raiding more than 40 offices, sporting clubs and charity organisations, confiscating documents and computers. Among those held was Sawah Abu Saif, a Palestinian said to have worked as a cameraman for a German television station, who was arrested as a suspected Fatah activist.
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