Palestinian Authority nab collaborators with Israel
Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
Wednesday, January 10, 2001
RAMALLAH — The Palestinian Authority has claimed success in its
current campaign against collaborators with Israel.
PA officials said dozens of Palestinian collaborators have surrendered
to authorities and confessed to working with Israeli intelligence. They said
that most of the collaborators were laborers who had agreed to provide
information and trail fugitives in exchange for small sums of money or
licenses to work in Israel.
"We are talking about people who have trailed Fatah leaders, some of
whom were later assassinated," a PA source said. "Most of these
collaborators made at most several hundred shekels for their efforts."
The PA has been under pressure from Fatah and the Islamic opposition to
crack down on collaborators. The collaborators have been charged with
providing the information needed for Israel's campaign to assassinate
leaders of the Palestinian revolt.
PA officials said some of the collaborators are also being used to
stage provocations. They said that on Sunday a Palestinian from Hebron,
identified as Ashraf Assad Abdeen, was arrested and confessed to placing
bombs that killed a 19-year-old Palestinian.
On Tuesday, the Hamas movement claimed responsibility for the Jan. 1
bombing in Netanya. The movement said Hamid Abu Hejla, a 24-year-old
university student, carried out the car bomb attack. He later died of his
injuries.
Wednesday, January 10, 2001
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