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Beginnings of PA-Israel Security Cooperation in West Bank


[Jerusalem Post] Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon - PA security forces in the West Bank are beginning to demonstrate "positive signs," said Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, head of the IDF Civil Administration in the territories. "Their operations in the [West Bank] cities are in coordination with us," he said Thursday. "The IDF continues to have freedom of operation, but we are allowing the PA to conduct their own operations and we are starting to see signs that their forces are restoring order and are arresting some people and interrogating them." Mordechai said weapons were being collected as some Palestinian gunmen were granted the opportunity to surrender their weapons and be taken off Israel's list of wanted fugitives.
2007-07-27 01:00:00
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