Arafat Angered by Saudi Funding of Hamas

(Ha'aretz) - The IDF's Saudi file shows how Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat was livid over the fact that Saudi aid was being paid directly to Hamas, rather than the PA and Fatah. On a document that includes a collection of media articles reporting that $33 million was transferred to the families of Palestinian victims, at the foot of the page, in handwriting that Israeli intelligence officers identified as Arafat's, the chairman asks Saudi representative Mustafa Div "to tell me where this money went and who received it, since the families of the martyrs and the injured did not see a single penny."


2002-05-13 00:00:00

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