(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - During the funerals on Sunday of the three veteran members and leaders of Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, thousands of Palestinians chanted slogans accusing the PA of collusion with Israel and calling for an end to security coordination with Israel and dismantling the PA. One local journalist in Nablus called it "one of the biggest anti-Palestinian Authority demonstrations" in many years. For years during the second intifada, Nablus, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, was controlled by dozens of Fatah gunmen.
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