Egypt arrests senior Hamas official, group says
Hamas said on Tuesday that Egypt has detained one of its senior officials and Egyptian media reported he was being questioned over the death of an Egyptian soldier and a communications equipment shipment.
The Sept. 13 arrest of Mohammed Dababesh worsened already poor relations between Egypt and the Palestinian Islamist group, which has refused to sign a document drafted by Cairo on reconciliation between Hamas and the rival Fatah movement. "We see this as an offence to Palestinian-Egyptian relations. It was unacceptable and unjustified," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told a news conference in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
