BEIRUT: Former Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan issued a scathing attack on rival Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas Friday after the Palestinian security forces raided his house in Ramallah and arrested his guards Thursday. Dahlan arrived in the Jordanian capital Amman following the raid late Thursday, according to a report in Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Ray.

In an exclusive statement issued to Al-Ray, Dahlan said: “Abu Mazen [Abbas] is personally responsible for what has happened to me in Ramallah. He has brought shame upon us and he is trying to establish a dictatorship at a stage where all dictatorships are gone,” adding that Abbas “pretends to protect the law but at the same time he breaks into people’s houses which he is supposed to protect.”

Dahlan vowed not to stop struggling for the sake of the Palestinian cause, pointing out that the way he had been treated “is based on no law or traditions and the one who fails to manipulate the law resorts to bullying techniques,” the newspaper reported.

Palestinian security forces raided the former security chief’s home in Ramallah Friday, seizing weapons, computers and documents, stoking a long-standing feud between the two party leaders.

Dahlan, was expelled from the Fatah party last month and his case was referred to the attorney general’s department on allegations of financial corruption and murder.