About 100 Palestinians have demonstrated in the West Bank city of Bethlehem against the Palestinian Authority's military intelligence service, blasting it for handing over a "collaborator". The protestors accused the service and its Bethlehem chief Tariq al-Wahidi of protecting a Palestinian who gave Israel information, which led to the killing of two resistance fighters last April.
| They do tend to seethe when the al-Aqsa thugs don't get to leave people's bullet-riddled carcasses lying around on the streets... |
Ziyad Shahin was transferred to Israel last week after four months in Palestinian detention. The two Palestinians killed last spring were the local head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Mahmud Salah and one of his lieutenants, Anan Jawarish. The group issued a statement on the fringes of the demonstration, accusing Wahidi of having "sold the two martyrs" by handing over the alleged collaborator. "Soon after his arrival in the governorate, he became a landowner, accumulating palaces and capital.
"It is the retribution of his betrayal, his allegiance to his masters and the protection he grants to collaborators," it said of Wahidi. Bethlehem Governor Zuhayr Manasra met the demonstrators, mobilised by Fatah, and promised to open an investigation into the allegations. |