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| Fatah Says Hamas Arrested Gaza Members |
| 2014-03-09 |
| [An Nahar] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, police in the Islamist-ruled Gazoo Strip have rounded up dozens of members of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's secular Fatah movement, Fatah said on Saturday. Spokesman Hassan Ahmad told Agence La Belle France Presse the arrests on Friday took place at a ceremony in Khan Yunis in the south of the coastal enclave. "Hamas police intervened during a ceremony to honor deaders" killed by Israel, Ahmad said. "They incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... dozens of people for no reason." Islam Shahwan, a front man for the Hamas interior ministry, said police acted because the meeting organizers had not sought permission. "Around 20 people were detained and later released after signing a document not to take part in unauthorized meetings," Shahwan said. Fatah and Hamas, which rule in the West Bank and Gazoo respectfully, signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo in 2011 aimed at ending their political differences. |
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