IOA: security coordination with Abbas militias the best ever

IOA: security coordination with Abbas militias the best ever

[ 23/07/2010 - 01:59 PM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Commanders of the Israeli occupation troops have hailed the militias of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah for the security-coordination it make with the IOF troops, describing such coordination as "fruitful".

Lt. Colonel Itzik Barr, the commander of the northern West Bank command in the IOF troops welcomed the security coordination with Abbas forces, saying that it was going through its best stages, fruitful, and reaping positive results.

But he said that although the security coordination was on a peak, it needs to be fortified and supported with the IOF troops to remain on the alert because security matters in the West Bank are "unstable".

"We are indeed very much happy with the performance of Abbas's militias in quelling terrorism", he added referring to the Palestinian resistance factions that fight the Israeli occupation in the West Bank.

He also urged the IOF troops to control themselves "in certain conditions" in order to enhance the position of Abbas's forces among the Palestinian public", pointing out that the Israeli soldiers now could enter to the depth of the West Bank without being fired at even with one bullets unlike before when the Palestinian resistance was still active in the area.

In the same context, the IOA agreed to allow 50 armored vehicles donated by Russia to the PA to go to the forces of Abbas in the West Bank as a gesture of "goodwill" and in "appreciation" to the performance of those forces in preserving the security of the Israelis.

But the IOA demanded that those armored vehicles shouldn’t be equipped with any attack weapons that might be used against the occupation in any extraordinary conditions in the future.

Abbas's forces, for its part, agreed to the Israeli condition, saying the military vehicles will be used to ensure order on the streets of West Bank cities and towns, and to quell demonstrators in the West Bank.

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