Posted on 09/14/2004 2:10:11 PM PDT by yonif
Unidentified gunmen in Ramallah Tuesday shot and killed another Palestinian suspected of collaboration with Israel.
Rami Yaghmour, 28, was arrested last month by the Palestinian Authority's Special Forces security apparatus following suspicions that he was working for the Shin Bet. PA security sources claimed that he had confessed during interrogation to the charges against him.
Yaghmour, a resident of Al-Bireh, is the sixth suspected collaborator killed in Ramallah the past 18 months.
Eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post that Yaghmour was kidnapped by a group of masked gunmen as he was being escorted to a local court by members of the Special Forces, one of 12 security services belonging to the PA.
They said the group kidnapped him by intercepting a car which he was riding in. The gunmen took Yaghmour to the nearby Al-Ama'ri refugee camp where they shot him several times in the head and chest, killing him instantly.
Although no group claimed responsibility for the execution, sources in Ramallah said the gunmen belonged to the armed wing of Fatah, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
According to the sources, Yaghmour, who worked in a shop in the center of Ramallah, was until recently a member of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Other sources claimed that he was a former member of Hamas.
Earlier this year Yaghmour moved to Jericho, where he told the PA security forces that he was wanted by Israel. PA security officials said that during his stay in the city he tipped the Shin Bet about the whereabouts of Fatah gunmen.
They added that the information he provided led to an IDF raid on the city in which two wanted Fatah activists were killed.
In Gaza City, 11 Palestinian men appeared in a PA court Tuesday to face charges of collaborating with Israel. The defendants told the three-judge panel that no lawyer had agreed to represent them because of the nature of the charges.
The court decided to postpone the hearing until September 27 so the defendants can find lawyers. In the past, the court has appointed lawyers to defend suspected collaborators, but the attorneys refused to cooperate.
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