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The Ariel Police detained five people - including three minors - overnight Saturday/Sunday, on suspicions of entering Joseph's Tomb outside Shechem (Nablus). Their attorney, Itamar Ben-Gvir, reported that some detainees were bleeding after Palestinian Authority (PA) police found them and beat them; two of them are suffering from head injuries. On Saturday night, the detainees arrived at the Tomb together with about 30 people to protest the site's arson by Palestinian Arabs last week. The PA police beat as many people as possible upon their entry to the site, however, banging their heads against their jeeps until the IDF arrived;...

Israeli troops beat five unarmed Palestinian traffic police in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, a witness and officials said, throwing them to the ground and hitting one with a rifle butt. After the beating, which lasted several minutes, the soldiers shackled the policemen and hauled them away in an army jeep. The incident prompted dozens of Palestinians to throw rocks and bottles at the soldiers. An Associated Press photographer who witnessed the incident said about 12 Israeli soldiers approached the policemen and ordered them to leave the area. When the policemen refused, the soldiers began to remove...

NEW YORK- In the wake of the latest suicide bombing massacre carried out by a Palestinian Authority police officer, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to immediately suspend all U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority police and security forces. The terrorist who massacred at least 10 Israelis in a Jerusalem bus bombing on January 29, 2004 was Ali Yusuf Jaara, a PA police officer who was formerly a member of Yasir Arafat's terrorist Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade. This was just the latest of many instances in which PA police and security personnel were involved...

(IsraelNN.com) The suicide bomber and his handler apprehended yesterday before they struck the ORT Alon School in Yokneam were members of the PA National Security Force. The would-be suicide bomber is a 23-year-old Gaza resident and his handler, a 20-year-old from the Jenin district.