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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Hamas makes mass arrests in Gaza

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Hamas makes mass arrests in Gaza: "Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip have arrested 120 men after an explosion killed five Hamas members and a girl, the group's officials said.

The cause of the explosion on Friday night was not immediately known, but Hamas blamed the Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, accusing it of collaborating with Israel.

Fatah denied any involvement in the 'mysterious explosion', which badly damaged the car belonging to the dead men.

A senior Fatah official confirmed Hamas security forces arrested more than 100 Fatah members on Saturday and raided party offices across Gaza, confiscating computers and documents.

Azzam al-Ahmed, the head of Fatah's parliamentary bloc, said: 'Hamas knows very well the details of what has happened. It knows Fatah was not involved in the explosions that took place.'

Hundreds of people attended a funeral procession on Saturday for the Hamas fighters killed by the explosion.

Overnight, heavy fighting took place in Gaza's Tel al-Hawa district, where Hamas members confronted the family of a man they sought to arrest, exchanging fire and volleys of rocket-propelled grenades."

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