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Hamas atau Fatah?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057499.html

            Last update - 17:17 21/01/2009     
     
     
      Hamas reasserts control in Gaza, rounds up 'collaborators'  
     
      By Reuters  
     
      Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Fatah  
     

      The Islamist Palestinian group Hamas said on Wednesday it had begun 
reasserting control in the Gaza Strip and rounding up suspected collaborators 
with Israel, drawing accusations from the rival Fatah group that its members 
were being targeted. 

      "The internal security service was instructed to track collaborators and 
hit them hard," said Ehab al-Ghsain, spokesman of the Hamas Interior Ministry, 
without singling out Fatah members by name. 

      "They arrested dozens of collaborators who attempted to strike the 
resistance by giving information to the occupation about the fighters," he 
said, using a Hamas term for Israel, whose 22-day offensive devastated the Gaza 
Strip. 
      Earlier this month, Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass first reported the 
secret executions of dozens of Gazans consider by Hamas to be "collaborators" 
with the enemy. 

      Hamas and Fatah supporters have traded accusations in Arab media that 
Fatah collaborated with Israel in the hope it could return to power in the Gaza 
Strip and that Hamas provoked the Israeli invasion by firing rockets into 
southern Israel. 

      Hamas, an Islamist group that won the 2006 Palestinian election, 
violently seized the coastal enclave from Fatah, led by Palestinian President 
Mahmoud Abbas, in 2007. 

      A statement issued by Fatah in Gaza said that since fighting between 
Israel and Gaza militants ended - Hamas and Israel put separate ceasefires into 
effect on Sunday - Hamas militias had carried out a number of attacks against 
Fatah members. 

      These attacks, according to the statement, included "shooting at the feet 
of Fatah members, brutal crimes of execution and throwing the bodies in the 
rubble of destruction." Fatah appealed to Abbas' Palestinian Authority to 
intervene. 

      Ghsain denied the allegations but said authorities had begun tracking 
down suspected "collaborators" with Israel. 

      "These are familiar lies and false allegations from Fatah and the forces 
of sedition," he said. 

      "It is also an attempt to steal the light of victory and cover up how 
they bet on the enemy and their disappointment that the enemy could do nothing 
to return them [to power]." 

      Residents said several suspected collaborators were killed by unknown 
assailants during the Gaza war. No Hamas-related groups have claimed 
responsibility and relatives of militants killed by Israel are thought to be 
behind some of the attacks. 

      Some prisoners escaped from the Israeli-bombed security complex housing 
Gaza's main prison early in the conflict. At least two were subsequently shot 
in a settling of scores with people suspected of collaboration with Israel. 

      The offensive Israel launched on Dec. 27 with the declared aim of ending 
rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip killed nearly 1,300 Palestinians and made 
thousands homeless. Gaza medical officials said the Palestinian dead included 
at least 700 civilians. 

      Israel, which put its own losses at 10 soldiers and three civilians, says 
hundreds of militants died. It completed a Gaza troop pullout on Wednesday. 

      The Hamas government said many employees were back at work on Wednesday 
in buildings such as the Ministry of Education that survived the Israeli attack 
intact. Employees of destroyed ministries would be relocated to other 
buildings. 

      Armed police in official uniforms were on the streets, organizing traffic 
and guarding government buildings. Hamas says 230 policemen were killed during 
the fighting. An Israeli attack also killed Hamas' security chief, Said Sayyam. 

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