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<blockquote class="article-intro"><p>Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, said  on Sunday that in 2010, Palestinian Authority security forces detained  3,000 Hamas affiliates in the West Bank.</p></blockquote>
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<p class="article">In  a press conference held in Gaza City, Barhoum explained that 1,404 of  the detainees had served time in Israeli jails, 49 were prominent Hamas  leaders, 49 Imams of mosques, 405 university students and 24 professors.  Also, 36 journalists, 12 businessmen, five pharmacists, seven women and  12 school children, were imprisoned, Barhoum informed.</p>
<p>He also added that the Fatah-led government ignores the calls to end  political arrests and claimed that the P.A. is &#8220;fully responsible&#8221; for  the lives and safety of its detained affiliates.</p>
<p>Barhoum strongly condemned the detention of Ayoub Al-Qawasmi, the Qassam  Brigades leader, 46, who was detained in Hebron on Thursday night, and  whose whereabouts have still not be revealed. He described the action as  &#8220;abduction&#8221; and a &#8220;national crime&#8221;.</p>
<p>The detention of political prisoners by Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas  in Gaza, defined as a security disagreement, are always considered to  be an obstacle for the national unity by the two factions.</p>
<p>Hamas and Fatah have had severely strained relations since Hamas won the  Palestinian legislative elections in early 2006. While Fatah has been  negotiating with Israeli authorities to take over the role of the  Israeli military occupying the West Bank, Hamas sees this approach as  collaborating with the illegal Israeli occupation.</p>
<p>Recently, two rounds of talks held in Damascus failed to achieve reconciliation between the parties.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/60331">Hamas: 3,000 Members Arrested by P.A. in 2010 &#8211; International Middle East Media Center</a>.</p>
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