Hamas says Palestinian Authority arrested 200 of its members
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has recently arrested more than 200 of its members.
Hamas official Abdurahman Shadid made the comments on Tuesday, adding that over 200 people with the movement have been arrested since July 2 in the occupied West Bank and "most have been severely tortured."
"Hamas members in the occupied West Bank are being submitted to their worst campaign of arrests -- their biggest and longest."
On Friday, a PA official reportedly said about 100 Hamas members had been nabbed over alleged plans to attack the PA, which is largely controlled by the Fatah party.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, in response, denounced the claims as "cover for political arrests."
Shadid, meanwhile, held Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "entirely responsible for these maniacal arrests and the Hamas eradication project to the benefit of the occupier (Israel)."
Hamas and Fatah, Abbas's party, have been at odds since the Gaza-based Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006. The dispute marginalized Hamas governance to the Palestinian territory of Gaza. Fatah, meanwhile, set up headquarters in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank.
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