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(Times of Israel)- The US Consulate in Jerusalem is training a force of 35 Palestinians
from East Jerusalem to serve as armed guards, particularly for consular
trips to the West Bank’s Area A, which is off-limits to Israelis, it was
reported on Wednesday.
The arrangement violates a 2011 agreement
between Israel and the consulate, the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth
stated, whereby only IDF combat veterans would be authorized to carry
arms as consulate guards.
“The consulate was authorized to keep roughly
100 handguns for security staff, on condition that they be either
American diplomats or Israeli army veterans,” the paper’s Itamar Eichner
wrote.
Additionally, Israeli guards at the consulate
alleged that the Palestinians were being trained with firearms in
Jericho at a Palestinian Preventative Security base and in the United
States.
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