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Three Hamas women arrested for plotting suicide attack against Fatah
By The Associated Press
Tags: Fatah, West Bank, Israel news 

Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested three Palestinian women who were allegedly planning a suicide attack targeting
their own policemen in the West Bank.

Palestinian official Jamal Muheisen said Tuesday the women are members of
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amas, the Islamic group that has a long-running feud with the Western-backed Fatah government in the West Bank.

Muheisen said the women were arrested Sunday on their way to the town of
Qalqiliya, where four police officers and four Hamas militants were been
killed in recent clashes.

He added that one woman was carrying an explosive belt and confessed she intended to blow herself up in a police compound.

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