Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations    

    GAZA, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Hamas on Saturday threatened not to grant amnesty for anyone who makes troubles in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and that it will violently deal with the outlaws.

    "The era of treating the criminals, murderers, spies and collaborators with mercy and amnesty has gone and the way to deal with them will be clear. Soon you will see the execution sentences being implemented according to the law," said Mushier al-Masri, a Hamas legislator.

    Hamas launched a crackdown against what it calls "trouble makers" in Gaza Strip following a mysterious blast that killed a girl and five Hamas members at a beachside on July 25. But most of the detainees in the crackdown were from Hamas' political rival, President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

    Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, also supported the security forces of the deposed Hamas government in its crackdown against Fatah and dozens of civil society organizations which Hamas says linked with Fatah.

    Meanwhile, Hamas has, for the first time, implicitly admitted that its detentions in Gaza were politically motivated. Hamas arrested senior Fatah leaders on Friday in response to the arrests that pro-Abbas forces conducted against Hamas in West Bank. "We will respond in the same way until the bids to destroy Hamas in the West Bank stops."

    The current crackdown against Fatah in Gaza is the toughest one since last year when Hamas violently took over the coastal enclave and routed pro-Abbas forces.