[Reuters] The armed wing of Hamas called Wednesday for militants in the West Bank to use force if security men loyal to Mahmoud Abbas try to arrest them, after Fatah security forces detained two of its gunmen in Hebron. "We call upon our people and the (fighters) to defend themselves by all available means against any attempt to arrest them by (Fatah security) services, which are now working as a unit of the Zionist army," the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades said in a statement.
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