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Suspect
Gaza, May 11, 2017 (Xinhua/NAN) Chief of Islamic Hamas movement, Ismail Haniya, on Thursday told a news conference in Gaza that the suspect who killed a senior Hamas militant Mazen Fuqaha in March, has been arrested.
Haniya said that the suspect was arrested after he confessed to the crime, “the occupation (Israel) gave the instructions to murder Fuqaha.”
On March 24, Fuqaha was shot dead at the entrance of a building southeast of Gaza City.
The movement said in a short text message to reporters after Fuqaha was killed that the collaborators of the Israeli occupation shot him dead.
Fuqaha was released under the Egyptian-brokered prisoners’ swap deal reached in October 2011 between Israel and Hamas.
Fuqaha was originally from town of Tubas in the West Bank.
He was responsible for the killing of nine Israelis in 2002 in revenge for the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Gaza.
There has been no immediate Israeli army response to Hamas accusations that it stands behind the killing of Fuqaha. (Xinhua/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Abdullahi Yusuf