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Abbas orders release of Hamas men arrested in West Bank
By Reuters
Tags: West Bank, Gaza, Hamas, Fatah

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security forces on Thursday to release all pro-Hamas activists arrested in the West Bank since last weekend, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Dozens of Palestinians have been arrested in tit-for-tat sweeps by Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip following a series of bombings last week in the coastal enclave, which Hamas seized a year ago.

Hamas blamed Fatah for the blasts, a charge Fatah denied, which killed five Hamas and a little girl.
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Palestinian security officials said they had heard the report of the order from
Abbas, but had not yet received official instructions to begin freeing the Hamas prisoners.

Abbas' decision followed Wednesday's release of more than half of the 200 Fatah activists rounded up by Hamas in Gaza last weekend.

Earlier Thursday, Palestinian security forces arrested 15 Hamas activists in the West Bank city of Nablus, including four university lecturers at Al-Najah University.

Pro-Abbas forces in the West Bank city of Jenin also arrested 17 supporters of Hizb
ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), an Islamist group whose goal is to establish a pan-national Muslim state including the Palestinian territories and Israel.

A Palestinian security officer said the arrests were made during an "illegal demonstration" by the group, adding that the men would be questioned and possibly charged.

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