"This criminal campaign has crossed all red lines and constitutes direct cooperation with the enemy, in the clear light of day," said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum.
On Tuesday the Palestinian Authority announced it had arrested the six fighters who carried out the attacks one week earlier – four shooters and two accomplices.
"The arrests will only strengthen Hamas's determination to resist and bolster its painful hurting of the Zionist enemy," Barhoum said.
He added that the arrests "prove once again the dangerous position of the 'Fatah authority' as a security agent protecting the enemy, exterminating the resistance, and destroying the Palestinian aim".
Israeli Radio reported that Barhoum called on Palestinian factions to rebel against the Palestinian Authority "in order to put an end to this treason".
In a message posted on its site, Hamas also threatened its rival, Fatah. "We call on you, Fatah militias, to learn from what happened in Gaza before the people reject you. You know well that the hands sent to the heart of the enemy can reach you too. Learn the lesson before it's too late to change your mind," it said.
"Our patience will soon run out. We will not be able to sit by much longer," Hamas added in a message deemed by an Al-Jazeera commentator to be its most severe threat against Fatah since the group's 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip.
"You know that the hands that have reached the heart of the occupier can reach you too," Hamas warned.
Palestinian Authority security officials said that they had arrested members of two separate cells involved in the two attacks in West Bank, including two shooters and a third support man in both cases.
The officials said that they view these attacks with extreme severity and that they would do everything in their power to prevent further attacks against Israelis.
The attacks occurred on the eve of an official relaunch of U.S.-sponsored direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Washington. Hamas, which claimed responsibility for both attacks, vowed to carry out more attacks unless talks ceased. It also accused the PA of arresting hundreds of its members in the wake of the killings.
The resistance group says that the Palestinian Authority, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, doesn’t have the authority to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Bahar: Detaining resistance fighters in WB a big crime
[ 09/09/2010 - 11:56 AM ]
WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Israeli intelligence officers are participating in the interrogation of Palestinian detainees held in West Bank prisons, the committee of relatives of detainees said in a statement on Thursday.
It noted in a statement that senior Israeli officers from Maskobeh, Askalan, Petah Tikwa, and Jalama were directly supervising the investigations with the Palestinian detainees in Al-Khalil, Nablus, and Ramallah jails.
The statement also noted that torture rounds against those detainees were on the rise, noting that 32 of the detainees were carried to hospital since the start of Ramadan due to the deterioration of their health conditions as a result of the brutal torture exercised against them.
It said that 920 Palestinians were kidnapped at the hand of the Fatah-controlled authority in Ramallah since the start of Ramadan including 780 who were abducted following Al-Khalil and Ramallah attacks. Most of them are still in custody, the statement said.
For his part, Abu Ahmed, the spokesman of the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said that the Fatah authority in Ramallah was a replica of the Karzai regime in Kabul.
He lashed out at the Ramallah authority for intensifying arrest campaign of freedom fighters in the West Bank, adding that the campaign was more difficult than that of occupation.
The spokesman supported the recent attacks in Ramallah and Al-Khalil, describing them as "qualitative" and constituted a big "shock" for the "Zionist enemy and its intelligence apparatuses".
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