Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations 

    GAZA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Hamas on Saturday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of participating in an American-Israeli plot of eliminating the Islamic movement in the West Bank.

    Hamas said the pro-Abbas forces in the West Bank on Saturday continued their crackdown against Hamas supporters, arresting nine of them.

    "The campaign that Hamas faces in the West Bank comes in the context of a joint plan between Abbas, Zionist premier (Ehud) Olmert and the U.S. administration to pass a frame agreement," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, referring to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

    He added that such an agreement "would serve the hopes and ambitions of the U.S. administration and the Zionist occupation at the expense of the Palestinian people's hopes."

    Israel and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) have been negotiating an agreement, paving the way for a Palestinian statehood alongside Israel. Abbas and Olmert will meet on Sunday as part of the settlement efforts.

    After deadly fighting, Hamas now controls the Gaza Strip and Abbas consolidated his power in the West Bank. The two sides crackdown against their dissidents: Fatah people in Gaza and Hamas supporters in the West Bank.

    Abu Zuhri also considered the continuation of the detentions in the West Bank as a blow to the Egyptian efforts to broker a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah.