HAMAS AIMS TO CONTROL WEST BANK

Hamas Aims to Control West Bank - Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
Hamas is working to infiltrate the official PA security branches in the West Bank, a high-ranking officer in the IDF Central Command warned on Thursday. "If this continues, they will eventually take over the security forces," he warned.

He said the creation of the PA national unity government following the signing of the Mecca agreement had essentially "dissolved" any differences between Hamas and Fatah. A Hamas takeover of the security services would eventually lead the IDF to reconsider its policy of talking and coordinating with PA security chiefs in the West Bank, he said.

He said Hamas was involved in terrorism "at all of its levels" and that its infiltration of a car bomb into Tel Aviv on Passover night was supported by Damascus-based Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal as well as its local West Bank and Gaza terror chiefs.