(KUNA) -- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement accused Hamas on Thursday of being behind the assassination of one of its leaders in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip who collapsed during his detention in a prison run by the latter.The brigade reported that Abdullah Qishtah, 27, was arrested with a group of leading Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades yesterday in the governorate of Rafah at the hands of the Hamas movement. He was placed in a prison it runs on Rafah that was raided by the Israeli planes this evening.
The brigade called on resistance factions to take up the responsibility it was shouldered upon against what it considered a dangerous episode facing the national resistance at the current stage. It also called on Hamas to release all Fatah leaders and cadres detained in its prisons, adding that Qishtah was one of the wanted elements to the Israeli occupation forces.