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Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 03:44 GMT
Hamas beats off Arafat's forces
Gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Hamas freed their leader soon
after he was placed under house arrest by Palestinian security forces.
Hamas gunmen and security forces exchanged fire outside Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin's Gaza City home before the security forces retreated.
The Hamas leader has been under Palestinian house arrest in the past
Hamas has said it carried out the suicide bomb attacks on Israelis at the
weekend which killed 25 people.
The arrest attempt came as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat asked for more
time from Israel, which has suspended its retaliatory air strikes, to clamp
down on militants.
Thousands of people came out onto the streets to demonstrate against Sheikh
Yassin's arrest after a call from loudspeakers at a nearby mosque.
The 62-year-old leader, who is paralysed and virtually blind, was believed
to be still inside his house on Wednesday night after the arrest attempt.
However, Palestinian security forces did successfully arrest a number of
other Hamas members on Wednesday, and Mr Arafat reported detaining a total
of 151 suspected militants in recent days.
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