P.A. Police Confess to Drive-by Shooting
CBNNews.com
December 3, 2007
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Three Palestinian Authority (PA) policemen confessed to the fatal drive-by shooting two weeks ago, which took place near the Israeli community of Kedumim in northern Samaria. The victim was 29-year-old Ido Zoldan, a resident of the community of Karnei Shomron.
All three policemen involved in the shooting are members of the Palestinian National Security forces and live in the Arab village of Kadum.
In a joint operation, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and the Shin Bet (General Security Agency) arrested two of the three the next day, but the information was withheld for release until after the U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
Two brothers, Abdullah and Dafer Birham, both members of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, who serve in Ramallah, were taken into custody.
During interrogation, the brothers gave Shin Bet officials the name of the third policeman, Fadi Jama'a, who supplied the weapons used in the attack.
Palestinian security forces later took Jama'a into custody.
The three told interrogators they parked their car by the side of the road waiting for an Israeli vehicle to pass by. When they spotted a car with Israel tags, they followed it until they could pull up alongside and open fire.
Their goal, they said, was to "scare settlers."
The Fatah-affiliated al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack, called it "an act of protest against the Annapolis conference and a response to Israeli crimes."
IDF officials reminded politicians that these were Abbas's policemen, who are trained and supplied with weapons and ammunition by the U.S. and Israel.
Zoldan is survived by his wife, Tehila and two toddlers, Aharon, three, and his sister, Rachel, one.
Sources: YNet news service, The Jerusalem Post
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