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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					09/11/2010 &#8211; 05:27 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">JENIN, (PIC)&#8211; Ex-detainee and senior  Hamas official Wasfi Qabha categorically denied Israeli media reports  claiming that there were meetings between Israeli and Hamas officials in  Jenin city, affirming that this news was fabrication aimed at  disrupting the upcoming reconciliation meeting between his Movement and  Fatah faction in Damascus.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Qabha, a former Palestinian minister of  prisoners&#8217; affairs, said in a statement on Tuesday that what happened  was that a large number of Israeli intelligence officers and troops  violently stormed his home and other homes of Hamas officials in the  neighborhoods of Basateen and Yehya Ayyash at dawn Thursday,  particularly on October 28, and interrogated all of them.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He explained that besides his house, the  invading Israeli forces broke into the homes of Hamas officials Khaled  Al-Hajj and Ghassan Al-Zugaibi in a violent way causing panic among  children and women and forcing every family to go into one of their  rooms.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;The intelligence agents interrogated us  and inquired about Hamas and its position in the West Bank and Jenin as  well as its tense and distressed relations with the Palestinian  authority, and asked us to convey threat messages to the Movement  (Hamas) that it will not be allowed to resume its activities and will  remain banned [in the West Bank]…and that the example of Gaza and what  happened in Al-Khalil will never happen again,&#8221; the Hamas official  elaborated.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;I responded to the [Israeli] commander of  the region that I am not the channel that will pass your massages to  Hamas or the person who assumes such a job, and he threatened me with  arrest and that I am under their surveillance,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Hamas official also said that the  Israeli commander told him that he is banned by a court decision from  entering his native village Barta&#8217;a Al-Sharqiya inside the area of the  segregation wall.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7rKpYniUktPAy%2fB1RyvCbQjgGexRygC1V4p4HSPXEOo5si5I1ZHPoanS0kaxyrSwT6GFqa7nghuJgb2N6FrGAWRN%2bY4Ctmwax%2fxcvN78fEYY%3d">Qabha refutes claims about meetings between Hamas and Israeli officials</a>.</p>
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