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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					07/01/2011 &#8211; 07:46 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">AL-KHALIL, (PIC)&#8211; The militia of the  de facto PA President Mahmoud Abbas arrested on Friday afternoon a  number of participants in the funeral of Omar al-Qawsmi because they  chanted slogans in support of Hamas and called on the Qassam Brigades to  retaliate to the cold-blooded murder of Qawasmi.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The militia also barred the participants  from raising the green flags of Hamas during the funeral despite the  participation of hundreds of Hamas supporters in the funeral and instead  forced young boys to raise Fatah’s flag to show that Fatah was  participating in the funeral to try and lessen anger towards Fatah which  stands accused of security coordination with the occupation.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">PA militiamen were deployed in large  numbers at crossroads and closed all roads leading to the south of the  city as a demonstration was planned to start from the Wasaya al-Rasoul  mosque to protest the murder of Qawasmi and the kidnapping of freed  captives by the IOF.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Sources from the old city reported that  clashes between Palestinian youth and IOF troops took place in the  vicinity of the Ibarahimi Mosque. The IOF claimed that they arrested a  Palestinian youth who allegedly tried to stab an occupation soldier, the  identity of the youth has not been revealed.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7qWTwaHkJ4wH3QKUtzNeBuCQtNMDP2nYpxG0Zgbhj6c2zJKnfq77dIRAM7N42vtR%2bCAf38cwh%2fyMLz2AgeaTXj1595OgQ528bHdW6NSOk7lg%3d">Abbas’s militia barred the raising of Hamas’s flag during Qawasmi funeral</a>.</p>
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