Hamas has accused Fatah – the group that makes up the governing body of the Palestinian Authority – of sending security officers into northern Gaza under the cover of securing aid trucks.
A senior Hamas interior ministry official told the group’s al Aqsa TV that the force’s mission was supervised by Majed
Faraj, the Palestinian Authority’s chief of intelligence.
Without providing evidence, it claimed “suspicious security forces had entered with Egyptian Crescent trucks”.
It said the operation was coordinated with Israeli forces.
They said six members of the authority, who escorted aid trucks through the Rafah crossing with Egypt, were arrested and
police forces were in pursuit to round up all other members.
A Palestinian Authority official denied the accusations.
They said the authority wasn’t interested in an exchange of media comments
that would divert attention from “the suffering of our people in
Gaza Strip, and the killing, starvation, and displacement they
are living through”.