They recreate the bags carried by the last four suicide bombers with anti-tank mines and packets of ball bearings and nails which caused so much carnage. Though they didn't say as much, it left the claim by the Palestinian police in Gaza that they'd found a belt designed to carry sticks of explosive looking rather hollow. Whatever the skepticism on whether all the weapons captured were genuine, Yasser Arafat's security force has been at pains to show it is cooperating with Israel. It's carried out raids on buildings housing Islamic militant groups and suspects. The Israeli government initially questioned the Palestinian Authority's will to fight the extremists.
Evidence exists of brutal methods by the Palestinian forces and some alleged use of torture.
In their raids, the damage often appears wanton, and there's little to suggest that anything other than religious literature and humanitarian aid are found. The feeling on the impoverished, politically volatile streets is that Palestinian soldiers are simply doing the Israelis' dirty work. We are, indeed, afraid of what has become, say it is civil war, we are afraid that now, because these hundreds of Hamas which are arrested, and they know and the Authority know that they have nothing to do with the, with what will happen the last two weeks. This mosque was raided last week by Yasser Arafat's special forces. Attached to a wall facing the street, there are posters calling for a violent armed struggle.