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Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker
ISRAEL arrested a politician from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas today, Palestinian security forces said. Fadel Hamdan was detained tonight after about two dozen Israeli army jeeps ringed the area of Ramallah where he was based, security forces said. Overnight, Israeli forces also arrested Aziz Dweik, the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament. Israeli troops detained 64 other leading Hamas figures, including eight ministers and 26 MPs, on June 29.

The ruling Islamist Hamas movement is correctly considered to be a terrorist group by Israel and the West. The Israeli crackdown, which has also involved large military incursions in Palestinian areas, began on June 28, three days after Palestinian militants from Gaza killed two soldiers and captured a third in a cross-border raid.
Posted by: Fred 2006-08-07
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