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The Paleostinian Authority security forces arrested dozens of Hamas members in the West Bank early Thursday morning, the Hamas-linked al-Risalah reported, citing sources in the terror group.
The reported arrests come a day after the official PA news site Wafa reported the Hamas-run security forces summoned dozens of Fatah members in the Gazoo Strip and arrested several others, including the son of a Fatah Central Committee member.
The PA dominates urban centers in the West Bank, whereas Hamas controls controls Gazoo.
Wafa also reported the Hamas-run security forces threatened print shop owners with "arrests and beatings" if they printed materials in support of PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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General Assembly on Thursday.
Fatah, the PA, and the Paleostine Liberation Organization have been organizing events in support of Abbas and his upcoming speech.
Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
lashed out at the PA security forces following the report about the West Bank arrests.
"The Abbas security forces’ arrests of dozens of Hamas members in the West Bank represents a dangerous escalation," Abu Zuhri tweeted Thursday morning.
Since Hamas forcibly took over Gazoo in 2007, the PA has cracked down on its activities in the West Bank and frequently arrests its members.
In the same period of time, Hamas has heavily limited Fatah’s activities in Gazoo.
The reported arrests also come as reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah appear to be at a standstill.
In October 2017, the two rival parties agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to advance reconciliation efforts, which sought to bring the West Bank and Gazoo under one government. However,
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Hamas and Fatah failed to implement the agreement.
For more than the past year, Abbas has cut some PA budgets allocated to Gazoo.
More recently, however, Abbas has suggested he will cut all funding allocated to Gazoo if Hamas does not hand over full control of the coastal territory to the PA.
The PA sends $96 million to Gazoo monthly, according to Fatah Central Committee member Hussein al-Sheikh.
Hamas leaders have slammed Abbas for cutting funding to the Gazoo Strip.
On Wednesday, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a member of the Hamas Politburo, told Dunya al-Watan, a Gazoo-based news outlet, that Abbas "must be put on trial" for cutting budgets to the Strip.