Palestine Media Center: Palestinian Authority security to incorporate Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades

The Palestine Media Center reported yesterday that "Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei on Sunday announced a new plan aimed at disarming the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, training the anti-Israeli occupation group's activists, and incorporating them into the official security services of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)."

"The plan when carried out would be as a significant step toward establishing law and order in the occupied Palestinian territories," the report said.

Palestine Media Center reported: "We have agreed today to establish five new camps for training and hosting" the activists, Qurei said, referring to the Al-Aqsa Brigades members. He told reporters that the disarmament efforts would begin in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus, and then move into other areas, adding that PNA security chiefs will meet in the northern West Bank city of Nablus next week to evaluate, report on the security situation there, and provide the government with their recommendations.

Palestine Media Center reported "However the plan is threatened by the Israeli reoccupation of the West Bank, Qurei warned, saying that the new restrictions imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on the West Bank roads were undermining the peace process after he himself was stuck at a checkpoint for 45 minutes. An angry Qurei told reporters that he had been stopped at an IOF mobile checkpoint to the east of Ramallah as he was driving from his offices in Abu Dis on the outskirts of east Jerusalem."

Palestine Media Center report: "The Israeli say the road closures are to defend themselves, but it is really just a procedure to make our lives difficult.. This does not help the peace process but only makes difficulties for all Palestinians," he added.