RAMALLAH (PIC)– PA security elements in the West Bank will be deployed in Bethlehem before Christmas with the full coordination and approval of the Israeli occupation authority press reports said.
They said that the Palestinian national security forces affiliated with the PA presidency would take over security control in the city following “successes” in Jenin Nablus and Al-Khalil in persecuting resistance elements.
However the reports indicated that upper control and responsibility would be in the hands of the Israeli occupation forces.
The Palestinian forces’ main job is to block and abort resistance operations against the IOA.
Those forces rounded up a big number of resistance activists in Al-Khalil Nablus and other West Bank areas ever since their deployment in those areas.
Hebrew media reported that Israeli war minister Ehud Barak had sanctioned the step late last week at the request of the PA leadership.
PA-IOA meetings within the few coming days would determine the number of those forces and their armament in addition to the exact date of deployment.
Barak is expected to inform Tony Blair the international quartet’s envoy with the decision during their scheduled meeting on Wednesday.
