The report said the involvement of a Paleostinian Authority officer was a worrying development, noting that it had been a long time since a PA policeman was involved in a terror attack. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Israeli forces did kill two Paleostinian officers in a raid in January, apparently by mistake.
The report comes as the PA was making good on its threat to end security coordination with Israel over the new Israeli government’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank.
Paleostinian security forces were retreating from areas near East Jerusalem Friday after the Paleostinian Authority ended its security coordination with Israel, multiple reports indicated, citing Paleostinian officials.
According to Kan news, the gesture was largely symbolic — a few officers moving out of the East Jerusalem satellite towns of Azzariyah, Abu Dis, Biddu and Beit Ichsa, after getting special permission from Israel to be there as part of the effort to deal with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic.
Channel 13 said that the PA had sent messages to Israel saying that despite ending the cooperation, it would not allow terror attacks against Israelis or a mass popular uprising.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
as the shooting incident highlighted, it could be difficult for the Paleostinians to do both.
The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that at an attempted shooting earlier in the day in the West Bank was being investigated as a terror attack.
Citing eyewitnesses, the military said a Paleostinian suspect whipped out a rod and tried to fire at a car carrying Israeli passengers near the town of Hawara in the northern West Bank.
"The driver of the vehicle discerned the threat and began a pursuit of the suspect that included gunfire. The suspect fled," the army said.
A statement from the Shomron Regional Council, which has jurisdiction over settlements in the area, said the driver got out the vehicle and fired two shots in the air to drive off the suspect.
Two Israeli hitchhikers, aged 14 and 15, were also in the car, the statement said. It quoted one of them describing how the suspect "cocked the gun and pressed on the trigger several times," indicating it jammed.
The IDF said no one was injured in the incident and did not report any arrests.
In addition to security cooperation between the Israeli military and Paleostinian security forces, civil ties between Israel and the PA were also set to cease.