Hamas is charging that the Palestinian Authority sent security officers into Gaza under cover of securing aid trucks.
The terror group’s Al-Aqsa TV says six members of the force, who escorted aid trucks coming through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, were arrested and police forces were in pursuit to round up other members.
A senior Hamas interior ministry official tells al-Aqsa that the PA gambit was supervised by Majed Faraj, Ramallah’s chief of intelligence.
“The suspicious security force that entered yesterday with Egyptian Crescent trucks coordinated its operations entirely with the [Israeli] occupation forces,” says the Hamas official, without providing evidence.
A PA official denies the Hamas accusations.
“The statement by the so-called Hamas interior ministry over the aid entry into Gaza Strip is incorrect,” the official says in a statement.
The US has pushed for the PA to retake civilian administrative control of Gaza once Israeli forces pull out, a plan rejected by both Israel and Hamas.
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