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Hamas: PA security officers helped Israel kill Islamic Jihad commander
The Palestinian Authority denied it, of course, but that play of using one enemy to get rid of another has been done repeatedly throughout history in that part of the world.
[Jpost] The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-controlled Ministry of Interior said in a statement that the cell members collected information about Abu al-Ata, including monitoring his movements.

Hamas announced on Sunday that its security forces have arrested Paleostinian Authority security officers on suspicion that they helped Israel assassinate senior Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 military commander Bahaa Abu al-Ata on November 12.

The Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry said the cell members collected information about al-Ata, including monitoring his movements."They followed him for several months until the last hour before the [Israeli] occupation assassinated him," a statement said.

According to the ministry, the cell members are officers from the PA’s General Intelligence Service in the West Bank, who were assigned the task of monitoring and following the movements of al-Ata.

The statement named General Intelligence Service commander Sha’ban Abdullah al-Ghrabawi of ordering the cell members to collect the information about the slain PIJ commander. It claimed that Ghrabawi, for his part, transferred the information "directly to the Israeli occupation intelligence services."

The Hamas security forces also seized "technical materials" confirming that Ghrabawi had communicated with Israeli intelligence officers, the statement added.

In a video posted by the ministry, one of the cell members ‐ whose identity was not revealed ‐ said that in March 2017, he was contacted by Ghrabawi who asked him to form a cell of General Intelligence Service officers in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip. In September 2019, according to the cell member, he received another phone call from Ghrabawi, who asked him for details about al-Ata.

Another unnamed cell member who also appeared in the video said he, too, had received instructions from Ghrabawi to collect information about al-Ata.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-30
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