(Arab News-Saudi Arabia) Mohammed Najib - There has been a string of armed robberies at banks, gold stores, supermarkets, and ATMs in the West Bank. On Wednesday, a four-strong Palestinian gang armed with pistols and a homemade Carlo gun targeted the Palestine National Bank's Aqraba branch, south of Nablus, getting away with $17,500. Following a spate of recent raids, the bank director said his branch had received instructions not to hold more than $20,000 in cash and to transfer any extra cash to a safe which takes 30 minutes to open. The bank official noted that, until a year ago, the bank's guard had been armed with a pistol, but management had decided to withdraw light weapons from all 20 branch guards and gift the guns to the Palestinian police. He pointed out that the crime may not have happened had the robbers known the guard was armed.
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