HAMAS SETTLING OLD SCORES IN GAZA

Hamas Forces Arrest, Beat Fatah Members in Gaza (Maan News-PA)
Ihab Nasser said members of the Hamas Executive Force (EF) surrounded his family's house in Khan Yunis in Gaza on Friday, assaulted family members, and "shot at the family and injured my 30-year-old brother, Islam, in the foot." Nasser's brothers, Mohammad, 30, and Suheib, 21, were detained for many hours, then released after being "beaten all over their bodies, especially their faces." Eyewitnesses said the EF was reinforced by Fatah al-Yasir, the newly declared Fatah faction in Gaza led by Khaled Abu Hilal, the former spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior and a Fatah leader.

Palestinian Human Rights Groups Call for Probe of Hamas over Prisoners' Deaths Palestinian human rights groups on Monday called for an investigation into the deaths of at least two Palestinians who they said were illegally detained and tortured by Hamas in Gaza. Mahir Abu Dhalfa , 45, was nabbed last week by Hamas' Executive Force in Gaza City. On Monday, his body was brought to Shifa Hospital with signs of suffocation, Palestinian medical officials said. Hamas promised amnesty for its vanquished Fatah rivals in Gaza, but since then, at least nine Fatah loyalists have been killed, according to local human rights workers. (AP/Ha'aretz)

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