The deported terrorists have written a letter to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), saying that now that direct talks with Israel will be resuming, they want the topic of their deportation to be reconsidered. They also want PA help in facilitating their relatives’ ability to visit them.
In April 2002, at the beginning of the IDF’s successful counter-terrorism Operation Defensive Shield, close to 200 Palestinian terrorists who were engaged in warfare with Israel took over and found refuge in the famous Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem."
