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Palestinians detain dozens in weapons crackdown

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched his broadest weapons crackdown in years, for the first time confronting his own loyalists, including rogue security officers and gunmen linked to his Fatah movement.

 

The arrest raids conducted in recent weeks are a response to high-profile vigilante shootings that threatened to undermine law-and-order successes in this West Bank town, seen as key to Palestinian statehood claims. (AP)

 

 

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