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Palestinian Authority nab collaborators with Israel

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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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