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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					06/11/2010 &#8211; 03:39 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">WEST BANK, (PIC)&#8211; PA security forces  arrested this month 163 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, among  them 74 ex-detainees who were released from Israeli jails, and  transferred 40 detainees for military trials over their political  affiliation, the Hamas movement in Gaza reported Saturday.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The official report added that Israeli  forces arrested 13 Hamas supporters who were previously released by the  PA security militia, while the PA security arrested a number of Hamas  affiliates immediately after their release from Israeli prisons.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">This month saw a number of  security-related visits between Israeli and PA leaders, the group went  on to say, noting that a joint committee between PA security forces and  Israeli intelligence was formed this month to investigate several  detainees who were transferred to the Jericho central prison.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The PA government in Ramallah sacked 13  employees over their political affiliation to Hamas, including six  teachers and seven charity organization workers. A number of employees  were arbitrarily transferred from their work places.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a related context, the PA security  militia raided the West Bank town of Yatta on Saturday after setting up  several checkpoints and obstructing the movement of workers, local  sources told the Palestinian Information Center.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The militia delivered summonses to tens of the townspeople and arrested a number of elements from the Islamic Jihad Movement.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a separate development, the Muslim  Youth association in the West Bank launched a campaign to refuse  yielding to PA security summonses in light of the security forces’  excessive use of summonses “as a weapon to disrupt the daily lives of  Hamas supporters, break their morale, and spread a climate of terror on  the Palestinian society.”</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The association called for a stop to  voluntary responses to PA security summonses under the slogan: “Whoever  wants me, come and arrest me.”</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The group argued that answering to  summonses to PA headquarters supports the PA’s position and boosts its  influence on the Palestinian society, adding that arrests are less  detrimental than constant responses to security summonses.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7hCJyK4iAjl0cAlE73Gv0TWxtqlEHPfdeYz8ga5ok40%2bliW2ELN3vYqSYT3N2Kf3P4lJDxLasmog5xwHpozjfz53xAMRThKKAc%2fZ7i2vmgtc%3d">Hamas: PA security carried out 163 political arrests this month</a>.</p>
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