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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Hamas: alleged meeting with Israeli intelligence 'more like home raid'

Ma’an- A reported meeting between Israeli intelligence and Hamas officials was less a consultation and more a series of home raids and interrogations, Hamas representatives said.

...Further, he said he would not call the incident a meeting, since his "home was being ransacked by Israeli forces, my family and children were scared; those forces were persona non grata. How come they say they came to talk and drink coffee and at the same time?"

On 29 October, when the meeting was alleged to have taken place, Qabaha said he was told by Israel's military commander for the Jenin area that he was no longer permitted to access the village where he was born and where his family resides. Read more