Fatah members accused of planning treachery in Gaza
Egypt has arrested several Fatah members who were allegedly aiming to sabotage recent agreements between Hamas and Israel.
A Fatah leader Egypt arrested recently for allegedly plotting to blow up the convoys of two delegations visiting the Gaza Strip is suspected of being part of a broader scheme to undermine Egypt's attempts to improve relations between Hamas and Israel.
Fatah leader Zaki al-Sakani was arrested in late March in Cairo and was still in custody as of April 14, according to a post on Sakani’s Facebook page.
Fatah and Hamas are rival Palestinian factions, and the incident could jeopardize Egypt's relations with the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) and its president, Mahmoud Abbas.
Sakani is charged with planning future attacks on two convoys that regularly visit Gaza: one belonging to Qatari Ambassador Mohammed al-Emadi and another belonging to an Egyptian delegation that includes the head of Egyptian intelligence Amr Hanafi, senior intelligence official Ayman Badie and Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abdel Khalek. The idea allegedly was to frame Hamas for the attacks.
