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Hamas: Fatah helped Israel in war

Hamas: Fatah helped Israel in war

Hamas on Monday accused Fatah of spying for Israel during Israel's three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip in December and January, and released videos of alleged confessions by men they claim were from Fatah.

It said the Israelis were able to do massive damage and hit targets with such precision because of inside information from what Hamas said were "Fatah collaborators".
A Hamas security official alleged that Fatah agents had passed sensitive information, including using Google Earth to pinpoint targets in the Gaza Strip, to the Palestinian Authority, who then passed it on to the Israeli air force.
"With the help of the Google Earth program, those groups prepared maps to localize Mosques, institutions, tunnels or workshops," said Abu Abdallah, a senior intelligence officer in the Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip.
He said the information included plans of the home of Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader deposed as prime minister, as well as the location of tunnels and weapons caches.
A spokesman for the Hamas's interior ministry told a news conference that the video contained real confessions, not propaganda.
"We have this information. It is not lies," said Ihab al-Ghossein. "We have these people and everybody saw these people today."
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
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