Slayings Blamed on Palestinian Security

Police claimed that a high-ranking Palestinian security official was behind the killings of two Palestinians suspected of selling land to Jews. “We have firsthand evidence of the involvement of a head of security in the Palestinian Authority,” Jerusalem Police Cmdr. Yair Yitzhaki told reporters. He refused to give the official’s name. David Bar-Illan, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said statements by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian officials “make the Palestinian Authority’s involvement in these killings something that is beyond doubt.”