Hamas operatives reportedly took $16,000 from tellers in a bank in the Gaza Strip at gunpoint on Sunday according to local media. The money seized represented the balance in an account in the Palestine Islamic Bank belonging to an Islamic charity that had been frozen by the Palestine Monetary Authority when Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007. The forcible withdrawal was the second this year, the previous being the seizure of $400,000 from another bank, also at gunpoint.
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