A number of top representatives of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have been arrested in the Gaza Abbas discusses Mideast peace with Syrian President ...
Israel minister says too soon to talk of Gaza truce deal ... Strip, officials from his Fatah movement say.
Fatah officials Ibrahim Abu Naja and Zakaria Agha were among those detained as a Hamas crackdown following a coastal bombing last week continued.
Mr Abbas appointed the two to run Fatah in Gaza when the Islamist Hamas seized control of the area in 2007.
Fatah says dozens of its men are being held, but Hamas has not given a number.
Mr Abbas had ordered the release of Hamas members rounded up by West Bank security forces this week, but Hamas officials say no-one has been freed yet.
(BBC)
<< Back
