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Rival factions trade accusations of spying, violence in Gaza
* Story Highlights
* Hamas says some Fatah supporters helped Israel find Hamas leaders
* Fatah says Hamas has rounded up at least 175 members for torture
* Medical officials say patients have gunshot injuries in kneecaps, elbows,
hands
* Security source says group didn't order shootings, blames renegade gunmen
GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- In the wake of an Israeli offensive aimed at crippling
Hamas, Gaza's ruling party, Hamas is accusing rival Palestinian faction Fatah
of spying for Israel.
In return, some are accusing Hamas of carrying out "punishment shootings"
against suspects.
"In this war, we arrested many spies and collaborators, and we will stay
continuing to catch these spies and put them in jail and in court," Ehad
al-Ghossain, Hamas' Interior Ministry spokesman, told CNN.
"Some factions wanted to help Israel, to kill Hamas and Hamas leaders, and were
giving information to the Israelis." VideoWatch Ghossain talk about the enemy
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Fatah's power base is in the West Bank. It is locked in a power struggle with
Hamas, which won parliamentary elections in January 2006 and wrested Gaza from
Fatah in violent clashes last year. Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority
president and leader of the Fatah party, is a United States ally but holds
little sway in Gaza.
Fatah denies spying on Hamas for Israel, and party leaders said Thursday that
at least 175 of their members had been rounded up and tortured in recent days.
The highest-ranking known casualty in the Israeli offensive may have been Hamas
Interior Minister Said Siam, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike January 15.
Siam's neighbors said Fatah supporters may have pinpointed his location for
Israel.
"My brother and sister saw three or four spies, including a woman," neighbor
Omar Hassan said. "The spies left, and then Said Siam's apartment was hit."
Meanwhile, at Gaza's Shifa Hospital, medical officials said injuries they have
seen would be consistent with suspected spies being shot in the kneecaps,
elbows, hands or feet as punishment.
"We have seen severe arterial lesions at the level of the knee and at the level
of the femoral artery in the thigh, and also some lesions at the level of the
arm," international doctor Carlos Trotta said.
He said he has treated at least six patients, including a woman, for gunshot
wounds since the cease-fire with Israel was announced.
Another medical source said the shots were fired from close range, and the
victims have claimed that the injuries stemmed from punishment or a factional
vendetta.
Punishment shootings are a time-tested tactic used worldwide by guerrilla and
militia groups, from Che Guevara in Cuba to the Irish Republican Army in
Northern Ireland. They are meant not only to take revenge but to send a message
to others.
Two self-described Fatah loyalists were found heavily bandaged at a Gaza City
safe house. One of their colleagues refused to say where or why they were
injured but denied that they were spying.
"They shot him at close range with a pistol," he said of one man. "His bones
are shattered. They shot him point-blank in the foot. ... This was done by
Hamas people."
The other man, he said, was struck on his legs with a metal construction bar.
"Four people were beating him," he said.
A Hamas security source said the shootings occurred because renegade gunmen
took the law into their own hands. And al-Ghossain said there was no official
order within Hamas to carry out such shootings.
"That's not us," al-Ghossain said. "Maybe some families who had problems in the
past just wanted to shoot these people."
CNN's Karl Penhaul contributed to this report.
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