RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority security services Saturday of detaining eight of the party's members and said a ninth was summoned for interrogation.

In a statement, Hamas said security services continued to detain two of Hamas' members in their prisons from Hebron and Tulkarem and transferred another to Jericho prison.

In Hebron, the preventive security detained two and summoned another from a village nearby, the statement said. It said two others were detained in Tulkarem and Qalqiliya and a third near Jerusalem.