Fingering the collaborators

DANNY RUBINSTEIN

Ha'aretz, 3 May 2004

Occasionally there is an outbreak of panic about collaborators among the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, such as occured over two weeks ago in the Gaza Strip after the assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Rantisi was aware that Israel had targeted him for death, and that they were trying to kill him. At least once before he was saved from an assassination attempt, and since then he had taken extra security measures: he surrounded himself with bodyguards, switched hiding places, and didn't travel in his familiar car. In spite of that, the Israeli security services managed to catch up with him and to kill him, only a few weeks after he was chosen to head Hamas in Gaza.

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