Al-Quds Brigades slams PA security forces for returning a captured Israeli soldier Monday

Monday August 27, 2007 22:26 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC saed at imemc dot org

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, issued a press release on Monday slamming the Palestinian Preventive Security Force, loyal to Fateh movement, for handing to Israel a soldier who entered Jenin earlier in the day and was captured by members of the Brigades.

One of the leaders of the Brigades stated that members of the brigades in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, managed to capture an Israeli officer who infiltrated into the city.

“But our fighters were surprised to see members of the Preventive Security Force surrounding them and taking the soldier away”, the leader stated, “the soldier was wearing his military uniform, he was moved to the security headquarters in the city before four Israeli jeeps entered the city and the preventive security forces handed the soldier to them”.

The Brigades considered handing the soldier back to Israel as a rejected act which resembles “a stab in the back of the resistance”, since the soldier was wearing his military uniform and wasn’t just a civilian who lost his way.

The Brigades also said that the Palestinian leadership must protect the residents from the occupation weaponry instead of protecting the occupation soldiers from the resistance.

Moreover, the Brigades stated that only two days ago Israel assassinated one of it prominent leaders in Jenin.

“Protecting Israeli soldiers and Special Forces is a stab against resistance fighters who are targeted by those soldiers”, the Brigades said, “We will retaliate soon enough”.

Israeli sources reported that the officer was on his way to an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the West Bank and accidentally drove into Jenin.

The sources added that the officer was not harmed, and that he was driving without his firearm, but the Palestinian police said that they confiscated his weapon.

Moreover, Hamas leadership in the Gaza Stip slammed the Palestinian Security Forces fo handing the soldier back to Israel and described this act a a disgrace to the security forces as the ISraeli army is ongoing with its crimes against the Palestinians.

Palestinian security returns Israeli officer 'lost' in Jenin

Date: 27 / 08 / 2007 Time: 15:39

Jenin – Ma'an –

The Palestinian security services on Monday returned an Israeli officer who had mistakenly entered Jenin, in the northern West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli officer entered the city via An Nassera Street in a white car and wearing his uniform.

The witnesses also revealed that a Palestinian police car stopped the Israeli officer when he arrived in the main square of the city centre and escorted him to the Mukataa.

When the news spread in the city, dozens of furious Palestinian citizens rushed to the square and set the officer's car ablaze.

One of the enraged citizens said that the arson attack was a display of anger for the assassination of two Palestinians and the injury of four others by the Israeli forces in Jenin two days ago.

Ma'an's reporter in Ramallah said that four Israeli military vehicles stormed the city and took position in front of the Mukataa, before exiting the city accompanied by Palestinian security vehicles.

The officer was then handed over to the Israeli forces outside the city.

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