Fatah Says Hamas Arrested Gaza Members
[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
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'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
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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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