[MEMRI] Clashes broke out in Gaza between Hamas and Jaysh al-Islam (which took part in the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit) following the arrest by Hamas of several Jaysh al-Islam members on suspicion of involvement in the bombing of the YMCA library in Gaza. During the clashes, Jaysh al-Islam fighters shot at the house of senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar, and abducted Hamas members for the purpose of exchanging them for the detainees, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam reported Friday.
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