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December 11, 2005
December 11, 2005
Abbas Approves Monthly Grant To Families of Suicide Bombers |
The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has approved a new law, providing monetary grants to the families of suicide bombers. |
Abbas gave his approval on December 5, one day before a suicide bomber struck the Sharon mall in Netanya, killing five Israelis and wounding scores of others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIM: According to the New PA rules the family of this suicide bomber who was a PA policeman will now be eligible for PA funding. http://www.israelnewsagency.com/terrorismisrael3.21.html Message from the Prime Minister's Office It is Arafat who is solely responsible for the continuation of murderous terrorist attacks. Arafat has done nothing up until now to advance the cease-fire and he is acting - whether covertly or through inability - to torpedo General (ret) Zinni's mission. Israel will be unable - for long - to persist in a unilateral effort to implement the Tenet document. This must be clear to all who expect a change of direction on the part of the Palestinian Authority, i.e. a halt to violence and terror. The terrorist who committed today's suicide bombing in Jerusalem was a Palestinian policeman, Mohammed Mashud Mohammed Hashaikeh, born in 1981, from the Tluza village near Nablus. Hashaikeh was arrested in mid-February by the Palestinian security services following information they received about his intention to carry out a suicide attack in Israel. In his interrogation, Hashaikeh admitted to planning to carry out a suicide attack at the mall in Raanana and that he was working under the direction of Tanzim and Islamic Jihad activists in northern Samaria. Hashaikeh even turned over the explosive belt he was going to use to carry out the attack. From the interrogation it emerged that Hashaikeh was also involved in the attempted car bomb attack near Mei Ami on February 8. Several days after his arrest, the Palestinian Authority asked Israel to allow the transfer of Hashaikeh to jail in Ramallah. The reason for the request -- like similar requests made recently by the Palestinian Authority of Israel -- was that the Authority could keep Hashaikeh under "quality" arrest in Ramallah (namely, in a proper jail from which escape would be more difficult). Israel acceded to the request and allowed Hashaikeh to be transferred to Ramallah. From today's events it is evident that Hashaikeh was in fact released after being transferred to Ramallah. These events underscore not only the growing involvement of the Palestinian Authority security apparatuses in terror, but the refusal of the PA to arrest terrorists in an effective way for a period of time, even when the PA knows for certain that these individuals intend to carry out mass terror attacks. |
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