In a sign of increasing tensions between political leaders of Hamas and Fateh, 2,500 Al Aqsa fighters were reorganized into a new Fateh security force in the West Bank city of Jenin on saturday.
Seth Porcello, Ghassan Banoura, IMEMC.org
The new force took to the streets wearing black shirts carrying a picture of Yasser Arafat and chanting slogans from the first intifada. In the city of Jenin the fighters were showered with candy by two local residents, before Atta Abu Rumeileh gave a speech in which he warned of attempts by Hamas to undermine Fateh. This activation of a security force in Jenin comes just 18 days after Hamas created it's security force in Gaza. No security force has ever been created parallel to the Palestine National Security force in the West Bank however, and it's role here is a matter of some confusion. Atta Abu Rumeileh, the head of the new Security force in Jenin, explains:
This force will not be a substitute for the police, or any other system of the legal Palestinian National Authority. â
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