RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel arrested 23 Hamas members
in the occupied West Bank on Monday, some of them lawmakers, the Islamic
group and the Israeli military said.
Hamas said in a statement that the three Hamas lawmakers Ahmed Attoun, Hatem Qafisha and Mohammed Al-Talhad had been detained in the early hours of the morning, as well as several local Hamas leaders.
"It is a criminal act that will not succeed in stopping their struggle," the statement said, "We in the Hamas movement strongly condemn the campaign of arbitrary arrests that took in dozens of Hamas leaders."
An Israeli military spokeswoman would not confirm whether Hamas lawmakers had been arrested and did not provide any of the men’s names or say why they had been detained. "Twenty-five Palestinians were arrested, 23 of them belonged to Hamas," she said.
Hamas won the last Palestinian parliamentary election, in 2006. In 2007, after a unity government collapsed, it seized control of the Gaza Strip from Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement. Egyptian efforts to broker a reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah, which holds sway in the West Bank, have so far been unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, accused by Israel of receiving arms which transit through Sudan, has met President Omar Bashir in Khartoum, official media reported. Bashir discussed "issues of mutual concern" with Ramadan Abdullah Shallah during talks on Sunday at the presidential guest house, the state SUNA news agency said. It gave no further details.
A top Israeli defense official, Amos Gilad, said last October that Sudan "serves as a route for the transfer, via Egyptian territory, of Iranian weapons to Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists."
His comments came after Sudan accused Israel of an October 23 strike against the Yarmouk military factory in Khartoum. Israel refused all comment on Sudan’s accusation about the factory blast.
Khartoum said Israel was spreading "fabricated information" about links between the Yarmouk military factory, Hamas and Iran. — Agencies
Hamas said in a statement that the three Hamas lawmakers Ahmed Attoun, Hatem Qafisha and Mohammed Al-Talhad had been detained in the early hours of the morning, as well as several local Hamas leaders.
"It is a criminal act that will not succeed in stopping their struggle," the statement said, "We in the Hamas movement strongly condemn the campaign of arbitrary arrests that took in dozens of Hamas leaders."
An Israeli military spokeswoman would not confirm whether Hamas lawmakers had been arrested and did not provide any of the men’s names or say why they had been detained. "Twenty-five Palestinians were arrested, 23 of them belonged to Hamas," she said.
Hamas won the last Palestinian parliamentary election, in 2006. In 2007, after a unity government collapsed, it seized control of the Gaza Strip from Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement. Egyptian efforts to broker a reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah, which holds sway in the West Bank, have so far been unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, accused by Israel of receiving arms which transit through Sudan, has met President Omar Bashir in Khartoum, official media reported. Bashir discussed "issues of mutual concern" with Ramadan Abdullah Shallah during talks on Sunday at the presidential guest house, the state SUNA news agency said. It gave no further details.
A top Israeli defense official, Amos Gilad, said last October that Sudan "serves as a route for the transfer, via Egyptian territory, of Iranian weapons to Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists."
His comments came after Sudan accused Israel of an October 23 strike against the Yarmouk military factory in Khartoum. Israel refused all comment on Sudan’s accusation about the factory blast.
Khartoum said Israel was spreading "fabricated information" about links between the Yarmouk military factory, Hamas and Iran. — Agencies
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