Bahar calls on Abbas to stop security teamwork with Israel - Barghouthi: There is no authority in WB except that of occupation

Bahar calls on Abbas to stop security teamwork with Israel

[ 09/10/2010 - 08:29 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- PLC first deputy speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar called on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to make “a daring national resolution to stop security cooperation with Israel before it’s to late”.

He said in a statement on Friday: “To continue to engage in security cooperation with Israel poses a national crime by all standards, and leads to dangerous effects and results.”

Bahar blamed Abbas, the PA, and its security forces for the assassination operation against Nashaat al-Karmi and Maamoun al-Natsha in Al-Khalil because of security coordination with Israel.

The PLC leader said the PA was absent during and after the assassination and did not stop Israeli forces from carrying it out.

Abbas continues to discuss peace with Israel and has not yet pulled out of the talks despite ongoing violations on Israel’s part against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Bahar added.

Informed sources in the PA security forces in the West Bank said a number of relatives of the murder victims, who were killed Friday morning in Al-Khalil, are still in PA detention.

The source told the PIC that the PA security militia still detains 11 of Natsha’s relatives. Natsha himself was previously detained and tortured by the militia. Several of Natsha’s brothers were arrested by PA security to obtain information on his whereabouts.

A group of Karmi’s relatives, including his wife’s father, are still being held.

The sources said the detainees were subjected to harsh investigations to force out information that would ease access to Karmi and Natsha after Fatah had learned of their ties to the heroic operation in Al-Khalil that left four Israeli settlers dead.

PLC speaker Dr. Aziz al-Dweik called on Fatah to immediately release the detainees and consider the anger of people throughout Palestine resulting from their relatives' murder.

The PA militia mobilized during the Friday payers in several cities in the West Bank for fear of demonstrations against the Karmi and Natsha assassinations.

Eyewitnesses said they saw the PA militia patrolling around West Bank mosques heavily armed with weapons licensed by Israel.

The witnesses added that the security forces were in a state of alert in preparation to crack down on mass anger movements over the Al-Khalil assassination.

The militia issued dozens of summonses against Hamas supporters who attended the funeral of Maamoun al-Natsha.

A PIC reporter in Al-Khalil said a big PA security force was deployed in southern Al-Khalil and searched for funeral attendants. Elements from the militia appeared at the funeral to take down names of attendees.

Hamas MPs in W. Bank slam PA for arresting ex-detainee Barghouti

[ 09/10/2010 - 02:14 PM ]

WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank strongly denounced the Palestinian Authority's security apparatuses for kidnapping ex-detainee and noted national figure Omar Al-Barghouti and held them fully responsible for his life and safety.

In a statement on Saturday, the lawmakers said that the kidnapping of Palestinians released from Israeli jails is a mockery of the sacrifices and struggles they made for Palestine and gives a free service to the Israeli occupation.

They added that these arbitrary arrest campaigns reflect that Fatah faction and its authority are not serious at all about ending the internal division in the Palestinian arena, and are insistent on their security cooperation with the occupation.

In a separate incident, the PA security militias kidnapped nine Palestinian citizens thought to be affiliated with Hamas in Al-Khalil city, according to local sources on Saturday.

They also summoned dozens of other citizens after they participated in the funeral processions of the two resistance fighters who were assassinated at an early hour Friday by Israeli troops.

Barghouthi: There is no authority in WB except that of occupation

[ 09/10/2010 - 08:06 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- MP Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the secretary general of the national initiative party, has asserted that the Israeli assassination of resistance cadres in Al-Khalil and before it in Tulkarem proves that there is no authority in the occupied West Bank except that of the Israeli occupation.

Barghouthi told the PIC that the Israeli occupation forces were committing yet another crime before the very eyes of the entire world, which keeps silent toward such crimes.

Security in the West Bank is only for occupation and settlers, the lawmaker said, adding that what happened in Al-Khalil was downright aggression that coincided with settlers' crimes whether in targeting mosques or in continuing settlement building.

He described both acts as a racist, aggressive that necessitate uniting Palestinian ranks in face of occupation and settlement activity.

Barghouthi also described the negotiations process with the Israeli occupation authority as "worthless" since it only provides cover for such practices and for the settlement drive.

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