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PLO Council Votes to Recommend Suspending Security Cooperation with Israel

The PLO central council voted on Thursday to suspect security cooperation with Israel. The Times of Israel reports:

The PLO council decided “to stop security cooperation in all its forms with the occupying power” which it urged to “take over full responsibility for the Palestinian people in the occupied State of Palestine, the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza.”

A source close to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israel Radio that the council’s decision was a recommendation only. Another Palestinian official said that Abbas must issue a presidential order ending the security cooperation with Israel.

It is not uncommon for there to be reports of the Palestinian Authority (PA) preparing to or threatening to end security cooperation with Israel.

While the PA uses such threats to pressure Israel, the PA itself benefits from the security cooperation. Last summer, during Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet,  announced that it had broken up a Hamas plot to overthrow the PA in the West Bank.

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