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March 20, 2009

Israel Arrests 10 Hamas Officials in West Bank
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Meanwhile, Israel has arrested ten Hamas officials in the occupied West
Bank. Hamas is calling the move a blackmail attempt to pressure it for
the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Talks on a
prisoner exchange broke down this week in part over an Israeli demand
that hundreds of the freed prisoners be arrested or deported upon their
release. Israel has seized and jailed some forty elected Hamas lawmakers
since Shalit’s capture in June 2006.



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