(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - One day after Hamas announced that it would boycott the Palestinian municipal elections slated for July 17, PA security forces arrested scores of Hamas officials and supporters in the West Bank on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses said that among those taken into custody was Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil, the mayor of al-Bireh, who was beaten and led away. Many of those arrested were recently released from Israeli prisons.
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