Four PFLP arrests made at Israel’s request

25 Feb 2010 3:14 PM

News » Four PFLP arrests made at Israel’s request

Palestinian Authority forces arrested four teenage members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Nablus on ThursdayMa'an News Agency reports. A source "close to the PA security establishment" says the arrest was coordinated between the PA and Israel. PFLP-affiliated PLC member Khalida Jarrar says such coordination "serves the occupation."

A young man walks past a mural for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus' Old City.

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Senior PFLP officials said PA forces deployed across the city and arrested Muhammad At-Teriaqi, 17, Muhammad Jihad An-Natur, 18, Omer Tayseer Abdul Haq, 18, and Muhammad Al-Madani, 17.

A source close to the PA security establishment told Ma'an that the arrests were made at Israel's request. If they four had not been arrested, the source said, Israeli forces would have invaded Nablus and taken them to Israeli prisons.

Khalida Jarrar, a PFLP-affiliated member of the Palestinian Legislative Council slammed the arrests as "serving Israeli security interests."

"It was a concession to the Israeli conditions and dictates that are imposed on the Palestinian Authority," she said, urging the PA to release the four and cut security ties with Israel. She said such security coordination "serves the occupation."

President Mahmoud Abbas came under renewed pressure to cut security ties with Israel after the assassination of three Palestinian men in Nablus on Christmas night. Israel accused the three of plotting the killing of an Israeli settler. The PA said it would have arrested the suspects if it had been asked.

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Posted at 25 Feb 2010 3:14 PM by Editor