De Palestijnse politie en veiligheidsdiensten worden - net als tijdens het Oslo vredesproces - onder andere getraind en bewapend door de VS, om zo beter in staat te zijn tegen de gewapende milities en Hamas op te treden. Ook heeft men wapens van Rusland gekregen. Israël moet hier uiteraard toestemming voor geven, en heeft dat gedaan, ondanks het feit dat dergelijke wapens tijdens de tweede intifada tegen Israël zijn gebruikt.
Vorige week - een dag voor de vredesconferentie in Annapolis - werd een Israëlische burger op de Westelijke Jordaanoever doodgeschoten, naar nu blijkt door leden van de Palestijnse politie. Dit is een zeer slecht signaal voor wat betreft het zojuist herstarte vredesproces. Dit zijn immers juist de mensen die aanslagen op en aanvallen tegen Israëlische burgers moeten voorkomen. Hoe kan Israël nu nog de Palestijnse politie vertrouwen, en gebied gaan overdragen aan de Palestijnse Autoriteit? Abbas en zijn regering zullen dit zeer serieus moeten nemen.
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PA policemen behind last week's shooting attack in W. Bank
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 2, 2007
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Palestinian policemen were behind the shooting attack last week which killed Ido Zoldan, a 29 year-old father of two from the settlement of Shavei Shomron, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Sunday night.
Zoldan was killed last Monday night - the day before the Annapolis summit began - when shots were fired at his car as he drove past the Palestinian village of al-Punduk.
The three members of the cell were Palestinian policemen and members of the Palestinian National Security Force, which Israel and the United States have been investing in as part of the international effort to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah government.
Defense officials said that the weapon used in the attack was not supplied to the Palestinians by Israel since it did not belong to the official Palestinian security forces. The officials said however that the IDF expected the political echelon to rethink its policy of strengthening Abbas while his policemen were involved in terrorism.
The day after the attack, acting on intelligence, IDF soldiers and Shin Bet operatives raided the village of Kfar Kadum, near al-Pundak and arrested Daper Barham and Abdullah Barahm, both 22-year-old Palestinian policemen and members of Fatah. The third suspect, Fadi Jama, also a policeman, was in Palestinian Police custody.
During their interrogation, the two confessed their involvement in the attack and handed over the weapon used in the shooting to the Shin Bet. They said that they had parked their car on the side of the road and waited for an Israeli car to pass by. Once Zoldan's car appeared, they merged onto the road, passed him up and opened fire. They told their inteoogratos that they decided to carry out the attack to "scare settlers."
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