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Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Hamas says PA arrested, tortured 200 of its members
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas alleges Tuesday that more than 200 of its members had been arrested by the Palestinian Authority recently, with most of them tortured, threatening to widen a rift between Palestinian factions.
“Hamas members in the occupied West Bank are being submitted to their worst campaign of arrests — their biggest and longest,” Hamas official Abdurahman Shadid tells journalists.
He says more than 200 had been arrested since July 2 in the West Bank and “most have been severely tortured.”
The Palestinian Authority had not immediately responded to the claims, though one of its officials said last week about 100 Hamas members had been arrested.
— AFP
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