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Israel seizes Palestinian deputy prime minister
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 21, 2006
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israeli soldiers burst into the home of the Palestinian deputy prime minister before dawn Saturday and took him away for questioning, detaining the highest-ranking Hamas official in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling Islamic militant group. Palestinian officials condemned the arrest of Nasser Shaer, 45, a former university professor known as a pragmatist in Hamas, and accused Israel of undermining their efforts to form a broad government coalition. Israel launched its latest crackdown against Hamas, which controls the Palestinian legislature and Cabinet, shortly after Hamas-allied militants from the Gaza Strip captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid June 25. The Israelis have arrested eight Hamas Cabinet ministers and more than two dozen lawmakers since late June. Shaer's wife, Huda, said he was seized at an apartment where his family, including six children, had been hiding for several weeks. It was unclear how Israeli troops tracked down Shaer.
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