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| Terror Victims Group Wants Names of Arabs Exiting Gaza |
| 2007-06-22 |
| (IsraelNN.com) Almagor, an organization of victims of Arab terrorism, asked Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday for the names of those Palestinian Authority residents allowed to leave Gaza for Egypt or for Judea and Samaria. Sources in the organization say that among the fleeing Arabs are those responsible for attacks on Jewish families in what was the Gush Katif bloc of communities in Gaza until the 2005 Disengagement Plan uprooted it. Almagor has expressed its official opposition to allowing PA Arabs to leave Gaza for other destinations near Israeli population centers. "We stand in amazement at the capitulation of the State of Israel before non-governmental pressures from organizations aiding the Palestinians, including from foreign states, to assist members of Fatah," said the Almagor letter to Defense Minister Barak. "It seems as though it has been forgotten in the public debate that those Fatah members are the very same who sought our demise, and a large portion of them took part in terrorist activities against the State of Israel and its citizens." On Wednesday night, the IDF provided buses to transport dozens of PA Arabs from the Erez Crossing on the northern tip of Gaza to the Kerem Shalom Crossing on the southern tip of Gaza, and then across the Egyptian border. The buses, traveling on Israeli roads, were surrounded by heavy security to prevent the Fatah-affiliated Arabs from escaping while in pre-1967 Israel. The transfer was negotiated with the Egyptian regime. According to the terror victims group, 30 out of the 60 PA Arabs who were transferred by Israel from Gaza to the Sinai peninsula were prohibited from entering Israel due to their involvement in terrorism. |
| Posted by:Fred |