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1st LD: Hamas police arrest suspect of attack on Palestinian PM's convoy in Gaza

Xinhua,March 22, 2018 Adjust font size:

GAZA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The man behind the failed assassination of Palestinian prime minister last week was arrested in Gaza on Thursday, sources in Hamas-run interior ministry told Xinhua, adding two policemen were killed during the operation.

A shootout broke out with the suspect who was hiding in a house in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of al-Nussairat, added the source on condition of anonymity.

Late on Wednesday, the Hamas interior ministry identified the suspect, adding that its security services had launched a search operation to nab him. Enditem