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Last update - 11:27 21/07/2008 Report: Israeli forces detain female Hamas lawmaker, businessmen By Reuters Tags: Hamas, Israel, Palestinians Israeli forces detained a Hamas woman lawmaker on Monday along with 14 managers of a West Bank business venture that Israel accuses of having links to the Islamist faction, Palestinian officials said. The detentions in Nablus looked likely to stoke tensions between Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is trying to advance his own law-and-order drive in the city and elsewhere in the West Bank since breaking with Hamas last year. Advertisement Mona Mansour, a Hamas deputy in the Palestinian parliament, was among some 20 Nablus residents taken into Israeli custody overnight, relatives and local officials said. Also detained were 14 members of the board of Beit Almal, a finance company which owns a Nablus mall which Israel ordered to close this month for what it said were links to Hamas fund-raising. The management had denied the charge and refused to shut the five-story complex. The closure order was for two years. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that 18 Palestinians were detained in Nablus "as part of our routine counter-terrorist operations" but had no further details. Hamas, which rejects peace talks with Israel, routed forces from Abbas's secular Fatah faction to take over the Gaza Stripin June 2007. Israel has stepped up a campaign against suspected Hamas assets in the occupied West Bank, where Abbas holds sway. Hamas swept Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, but dozens of its lawmakers and other politicians were rounded up by Israel after Gazan gunmen abducted an Israeli soldier later that year. Related articles: IDF soldier shoots bound Palestinian at short range Bookmark to del.icio.us   Brown's ultimatum British PM to Knesset: Iran must suspend nuclear bid or face global isolation. One giant leap VIDEO: Israeli-developed device allows paraplegics to walk again.   1.   first school busses, no women 11:50  |  Sarah 21/07/08   2.   exchange Hamas Lawmakers vs. Shalit only 12:28  |  Jacob 21/07/08   3.   world perspective remains blind to this tactic 12:35  |  eric 21/07/08   4.   GOOD MOVE! HIT THEM 12:57  |  Robert 21/07/08   5.   good post eric 13:26  |  rm 21/07/08   6.   Is detention an arrest? 13:34  |  Outsider 21/07/08   7.   Hostages!! Get yer Shalit hostages `ere!! 14:11  |  Clickfool 21/07/08   8.   That`s right, Clickfool, you fool. They should arrest a thousand 14:46  |  IW 21/07/08   9.   ISRAEL IS AN EVIL EMPIRE 15:50  |  Groud 21/07/08   10.   IW=WRONG 18:03  |  utagawa 21/07/08   11.   # 1 sure thing, if their parents are associated with Hamas 19:47  |  Kris Lazar 21/07/08   12.   Abbas is an Israeli stooge 20:37  |  Harold 21/07/08

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