Word: fatah
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...week long, Israeli media and some politicians had fretted over the wisdom of last weekend's assassination of Raed Karmi, a local militia leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization wanted by Israel for attacks on Jewish settlers in the West Bank. And sure enough, Fatah's Al Aqsa brigades claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage at Hadera, saying the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Karmi. Israel blamed the attack directly on Arafat, and the response was swift - Israeli F-16s destroyed Palestinian Authority security headquarters in the town of Tulkarm, in what may only...
...such as political rallies and funerals for slain compatriots, the two factions formed a National and Islamic Committee in every Palestinian town. The committee includes members of Hamas and its spin-off, Islamic Jihad, as well as the various components of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including Arafat's party, Fatah. Contacts on this level helped foster similar ties on the military front. "Joint attacks," notes a senior official in Israeli military intelligence, "are not a marginal phenomenon lately." The links between these organizations, as well as between the Islamists and the official security forces of the Authority, have become...
...Israeli army reservist, Captain Eyal Sela, was shot dead on a West Bank road by a gang that included one member from Fatah, one from Hamas and one from a communist group within the P.L.O. that has been quiet for years...
...gunmen opened fire with Kalashnikovs on a crowd of people near the central bus station in the city of Afula, killing two young Israeli men. Fatah and Islamic Jihad shared responsibility...
...number of joint attacks has grown at the same time Arafat's popularity and authority have sunk to new lows. Since the Authority has never allowed much room for internal dissent, the joint operations have become a new outlet through which to criticize and embarrass Arafat. "We in Fatah are the ones who shouldered the burden of the peace project," says a West Bank security official, citing the group's work in building Authority institutions. "But in spite of what we have suffered, Arafat doesn't listen...