The Palestinian security forces arrested on Monday a Hamas movement member in the West Bank city of Nablus, for hiding in his house one million Euros, Palestinian security sources said on Monday.

The sources, said the 52-year-old Hamas member was arrested on Monday from his house in the village of Zawata, west of Nablus, adding that he was hiding the one million Euros into the Jacuzzi of his bathroom.

"The security forces also found with the Hamas man designs and plans of digging under ground tunnels under Palestinian National Authority (PNA) security headquarters in the city," said the sources.

It added that the arrest operation "was carried out amid complicated security circumstances, where the money and the plans were found hidden into his house to be used in carrying out future attacks on PNA security forces."

No comment was available by Hamas spokesman to the alleged Palestinian security sources claims.

Last week, nine Palestinians were killed in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, including four Hamas militants, four security officers of President Mahmoud Abbas security forces and one civilian.

The security sources accused Hamas movement that it has plans to carry out armed attacks in the future against the PNA security forces in the West Bank to create a status of instability and unrest in the area.

On June 14, 2007, and following a week of bloody armed clashes with Abbas Fatah security forces in the Gaza Strip, Hamas took control of the enclave. The West Bank remained under Abbas' control.

Since then, the two rival movements have been cracking down on each other's members and militants. Hundreds of Hamas members were arrested in the West Bank, and hundreds of Fatah members were detained in Gaza.

Egypt is mediating intensive dialogue between the two groups, aiming at ending their feuds and reaching a reconciliation agreement.

(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2009)