Palestinians hand Israel Qassam rocket seized in West Bank
Handover signals growing cooperation between Palestinian security force and IDF.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Gaza rockets Israel news West BankPalestinian security forces have handed over to Israel a Qassam rocket manufactured in the West bank, Army Radio reported on Monday.
So far the homemade Qassams, which have a range of a few kilometers, have only been fired at Israel from the Gaza, sometimes hitting towns like Sderot but often landing in empty desert.
But such a rocket fired from the West Bank could easily strike one of Israel's most densely populated areas.
The handover has been viewed as a sign of increasingly close cooperation between the Palestinian and Israel security establishments, despite a continuing freeze in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Senior IDF officers hold regular joint meetings with Palestinian police chiefs and the army says the good relations between the forces have prevented violence.
On Sunday night, Israeli and West Bank authorities worked closely together to avert a clash when 35 rightwing Jewish activists flouted a ban on Israeli entry to Palestinian-controled zones and marched on Jericho.
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Arie and Hassan, 2 things occur to me. 1 is that there are grounds for concern as an Israeli in the west bank. Bad luck would be more of a factor than politics in the area. However, by saying that you would be torn apart for going to Ramallah illustrates that you have never been. You could not be further from the truth (from experience). Sadly, this is what causes the continuation of this conflict: paranoia! Without it, it would be a matter of weeks before there was peace!
I think that there are no SAINTS in either side Arie, but there must be a start point for a bright and promising future for all.
first step in trying to make the change is revision of your schools curriculum and handbooks. Same goes for your media. Once I can go to Ramalla to have a coffee with baklawa without being torn to pieces with fingernails, in the same level of comfort and security as your boys hanging around Tel Aviv we can start talking.
And Israeli politicians keep saying that they don,t have a palestinian partner. The painful truth is that the palestinians can not find an israeli partner for peace.
At least the people on the ground are doing something good, which hardly can be said for the useless politicians!!!