 RAMALLAH - Palestinian security forces arrested 14 members of Hamas as part of a West Bank crackdown on the Islamic movement, Hamas said Saturday. The detentions took place in Hebron and Nablus, Hamas added in the statement.
Also Saturday, the top Palestinian security official, Minister of Interior Abdul Razzak Yehya, confirmed reports that Fatah militias, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, had been dismantled and no longer existed.
| Hey Fred, what are they called now? |
Speaking on the official Voice of Palestine radio, Yehya said steps to dismantle all other militias operating in the Palestinian areas were under way. He expressed the hope that they would all cooperate with the Palestinian security plan to disarm and disband, warning that if they do not do that willingly, then the security forces would disarm them and collect what he called their ‘illegal’ weapons.
| Wonder if the Fatah gunnies have mastered the art of the 'crossfire'? |
A senior Islamic Jihad leader, Naffez Azzam, responded in Gaza Saturday by calling on Yehya to ‘restudy his attitude and calculations about the weapons and factions of resistance’ because ‘what is happening ... needs to be carefully understood.’
| "Or else youse and your boyz are gonna git it!" |
He said that 25 Palestinians had been killed in various Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past couples of weeks. |