So, it's not surprising to know that the Palestinians are using settlements abandoned by Israel as terror training camps these days. It's about all the Palestinian leadership knows - creating, maintaining, and expanding terrorist infrastructure.
Officials said several of the 21 Jewish communities dismantled by Israel in September 2005 have become training grounds for insurgents from the ruling Fatah movement as well as the Islamic opposition. They said training included members of the new "Popular Army" sponsored by Fatah.
In November 2005, PA Interior Minister Nasser Yusef toured the training camps in the former Jewish community of Neve Dekalim. Neve Dekalim was the largest of the Jewish municipalities in the Gaza Strip. In all, about 9,000 Jews had lived in the Gaza Strip until their expulsion by Israel's military.
The Interior Ministry has drafted a plan for the use of the former Jewish communities, deemed a "closed military zone" by the PA. Officials acknowledged that organized crime as well as insurgency groups have clashed over control of the territory.
If they were only so successful in the economic or social realm.
UPDATE 12/13/2005:
Picked up by Atlas Shrugged who comments on the continuing payouts to terrorists by Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. Thanks Pamela!
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