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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister Saturday, the highest-ranking Hamas official rounded up in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling party.

Troops burst into the home of Nasser Shaer around 4:30 a.m. and took him away, said the deputy prime minister's wife, Huda.

She said her husband had been in hiding since the crackdown began in late June after Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel and captured a soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit. She said he had rarely been home during that period.

The army said Shaer was arrested in Ramallah overnight for his involvement and activity in the Islamic militant Hamas.

With Shaer, Israel has now arrested four members of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Cabinet and 28 Hamas lawmakers. Four other ministers have been detained and released.

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Despite the arrests and a military offensive in Gaza, Shalit remains in captivity.

Officials from both Hamas and the rival Fatah Party have criticized Israel's crackdown.

"They wont be satisfied with any government headed by Hamas or headed by Fatah," said Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas government. "So I think they want to undermine the political regime, the Palestinian political regime."

Fatah lawmaker Saeb Erekat said Shaer's arrest hurts efforts by the moderate President Mahmoud Abbas to form a coalition with Hamas. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas was "finding it embarrassing to negotiate while his colleagues are in jail," Erekat said.

Elsewhere, a Palestinian gunman fired on Israeli troops at a checkpoint in the West Bank, killing one soldier. The gunman was then killed by troops, the army said.

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