DEBKAfile Reports: Fatah operatives who murdered two Israeli off-duty soldiers near Hebron last Friday were members of Mahmoud Abbas' security services
January 2, 2008, 12:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Ahikam Amihai and David Rubin were on a hike when they were stalked and shot in cold blood by Ali Dandanes, 24, a Shariya court clerk with ties to Palestinian General Intelligence, and Amar Taha, 26, full-time member of the Palestinian national security service. Both were from Hebron. They then turned themselves in to the Palestinian Authority for protection against elude Israeli military pursuit. The wounded soldiers fought back and killed a third member of the band. The third hiker, a girl, escaped and phoned for help.
The PA and its heads, Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad secretly protected the two killers from Israeli capture to the point of putting out a false tale that the three Israelis had rendezvoused with the Palestinians for an illegal drug deal and fallen out.
The PA then asked the family of the dead Palestinian gunman, Bassal Natshe to ask Hamas in the Gaza Strip to take responsibility for the attack in order to get Abbas' Fatah and PA off the hook. Hamas' ally Jihad Islami consented and issued a statement.
Saturday, Fayyad paid a visit to Israeli president Shimon Peres. Pretending innocence, he promised that the Palestinian Authority would catch the killers and in future combat terror.
Only after the Shin Bet discovered the terrorists' whereabouts and confronted the PA, did Palestinian officials admit that the two men they were harboring had plotted the attack and even posted a lookout to track their victims.
Ahikam Amihai and David Rubin were on a hike when they were stalked and shot in cold blood by Ali Dandanes, 24, a Shariya court clerk with ties to Palestinian General Intelligence, and Amar Taha, 26, full-time member of the Palestinian national security service. Both were from Hebron. They then turned themselves in to the Palestinian Authority for protection against elude Israeli military pursuit. The wounded soldiers fought back and killed a third member of the band. The third hiker, a girl, escaped and phoned for help.
The PA and its heads, Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad secretly protected the two killers from Israeli capture to the point of putting out a false tale that the three Israelis had rendezvoused with the Palestinians for an illegal drug deal and fallen out.
The PA then asked the family of the dead Palestinian gunman, Bassal Natshe to ask Hamas in the Gaza Strip to take responsibility for the attack in order to get Abbas' Fatah and PA off the hook. Hamas' ally Jihad Islami consented and issued a statement.
Saturday, Fayyad paid a visit to Israeli president Shimon Peres. Pretending innocence, he promised that the Palestinian Authority would catch the killers and in future combat terror.
Only after the Shin Bet discovered the terrorists' whereabouts and confronted the PA, did Palestinian officials admit that the two men they were harboring had plotted the attack and even posted a lookout to track their victims.
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