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PA Intelligence Service Says Israel Protecting Jewish Terrorists
RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 23 (IslamOnline & News Agencies)- Two Israeli ministers and a senior army general are standing behind the Jewish terrorists who murdered three Palestinians, including a 3-month old baby-boy, and injured four others in an ambush on Thursday, the head of the Palestinian intelligence service told news agencies Monday.
Israeli Tourism Minister Rehabam Zehevi and Infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman know exactly who carried out the murders and are protecting them, said General Amin el-Hindi, chief of the Palestinian National Authority's intelligence unit.
Zehevi is the leader of the right-wing National Unity bloc and Lieberman heads the Israel Beiteinu party.
El Hindi told the Palestinian daily newspaper, Al Hayat al-Jedida, that General Moshe Yahalom, the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence, also partook in the cover-up.
The Palestinian general said his office had passed the evidence that proves their case to the representatives of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who along with Israeli and Palestinian delegates, form the Tripartite Committee for Security Affairs in the Palestinian occupied territories.
El Hindi said that at Wednesday's regularly scheduled meeting of the committee, the Palestinian National Authority would demand that the Israelis arrest those responsible for the crime, as well as their accomplices.
The Jewish terrorists, who murdered three and injured four members of the same Palestinian family, are related to the far-right, extremist and anti-Arab
Kack movement, Western news agencies reported.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian child, Jihad Al Tamimi, from the Nabi Saleh village west of Ramallah.
Violence flared after the kidnapping, when the Israeli occupation army used live ammunition and poisonous gas bombs, wounding and choking many Palestinian demonstrators.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Israeli police deported more than 1,000 Arab workers, said a border patrol spokesman on Monday, the French news agency AFP reported.
Before the beginning of the uprising in late September, around 130,000 Palestinian workers are believed to have worked in Israel every day.
Since then, Israel has imposed a tight blockade on the Palestinian territories, dealing a heavy blow to the economy of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by depriving a large slice of the population of their income.
Several weeks ago, Israel began keeping out Arab workers with even greater force.
In another development, Israeli security forces claimed Monday that they captured a man who was allegedly behind the roadside bombings in Israel.
The Israeli General Security Service identified him as Anis Mahmud Namura, and claimed that he was a lieutenant in the elite Presidential Guard and a personal bodyguard of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat during presidential visits to Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Al-Khalil (Hebron).
However, official sources in the Palestinian Authority refuted Israeli claims that the arrested Palestinian was one of President Arafat's guards, saying the story was an attempt on the Israeli government's part to divert international public opinion from its daily aggressions against the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation "undercover officers" left a resistance Jihad member wounded in an assassination attempt in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday, AFP reported Palestinian security sources and witnesses as saying.
They said Khaled al-Hreimi, 29, was wounded in the leg by four masked men who sped off in a car with Palestinian license plates after the attack in the center of the Palestinian-controlled city.
Israel also killed four people, including two members of the activist Hamas movement, in a helicopter strike on a house in Bethlehem last week.
Since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, in late September, the Israeli occupation army has killed more than forty Palestinian activists in direct attacks. The U.S. and the international community have condemned such attacks and assassination attempts.
In another effort to stop Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat sought Saudi support for an Arab mini-summit during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Monday, an Arab diplomatic source told the French News Agency AFP.
The diplomat posted in Saudi Arabia, said the Palestinians were proposing a mini-summit "on the explosive situation in the Palestinian territories and the Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people."
The Palestinian ambassador to Riyadh, Mostafa Dib, said they also held talks on "the means to pressure the United States to implement the decision of the G8 summit," in backing the deployment of observers in the Palestinian territories.
Arafat praised Saudi support for the Palestinians and "the refusal of Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to visit the United States in protest at the U.S. alignment with Israel," said Dib, who took part in the talks.
The Palestinian President arrived from the Jordanian capital accompanied by a delegation that included International Cooperation Minister Nabil Shaath and chief peace negotiator, Saeb Erakat.
Arafat is expected to travel to the United Arab Emirates later on Monday.
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