Islamic Hamas police, better known as the executive forces, stormed the home of a senior leader in President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement on Saturday, the leader's family members and witnesses said.
The family members of Samir al-Masharawi said dozens of Hamas police members in jeeps surrounded the house in northeast Gaza City and stormed into it.
Witnesses said that Hamas police force detained two of his relatives and searched into the house contents, causing fear among women and children.
Al-Masharawi was in Egypt leading the dialogue between Hamas and Fatah in Cairo before Hamas militants took control of the Gaza Strip in mid June.
He was not able to return to Gaza after mid June so he went to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where most of the movement's leaders settled after they fled the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Leaders of both movements denied earlier reports which said that the two rival movements are preparing for secret talks to end the status of ongoing conflict.
Source: Xinhua
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