Ahmed Alhaj Ali’s tumultuous week started with his detention by Palestinian forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and ended with him shuttling from safe house to safe house to evade Israeli arrest. Forces loyal to Abbas have detained at least 299 Hamas supporters in the West Bank in the last three weeks, according to a Hamas official.

Israeli forces seized a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists. The overnight arrests came after Hamas and other groups rebuffed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for a halt to rocket attacks by Gaza militants.

Israeli troops killed a top militant commander in the West Bank on Thursday, while Palestinian fighters in Gaza renewed rocket attacks that had largely stopped during Israel’s Lebanon war. While a truce has halted fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, violence between the Jewish state and Palestinian militants shows no sign of subsiding.