Ghazi al-Jabali was the

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Chief of the Preventive Security Service, appointed by the Palestinian Authority. Al-Jabali, who held the rank of

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at the close of his tenure in the Palestinian security forces, had been a police commander and chief of the Gaza police since the early 1990s. Since 1994 he has been the target of repeated attacks by

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groups opposed to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, including gunfire aimed at his offices and a bomb that destroyed part of his house. He has also been the subject of a 1997 arrest warrant and extradition request from

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, based on accusations that he ordered Palestinian police officers to attack an Israeli checkpoint in July 1997. Al-Jabali was the target of protests after the shooting deaths of three Palestinian teenagers during clashes with police forces; demonstrators claimed that al-Jabali had given police officers orders to shoot protesters throwing stones during a

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organized demonstration in support of Osama bin Laden. Al-Jabali resigned from his post as chief of police in Gaza in June 2002, during a security forces shake-up that also saw the dismissal of Colonel Jibril Rajoub and the resignation of Colonel

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. Along with his resignation he announced his intention to oppose Yaser Arafat as a candidate for president of the Palestinian Authority. He was appointed chief of

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s in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in October 2003. A February 2004 gunfight Gaza police headquarters was construed by some officials as an attempt on al-Jabali's life. Other officials blamed violence on his rival Mohammad Dahlan members of the body he formerly commanded, Preventive Security Service. Al-Jabali was criticised for corruption and curbing press freedoms, as well as the arrest of Eyad Sarraj, a

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GlobalSecurity.org On July 17, 2004, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by the Jenin Martyr's Brigade part of the

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, who ambushed his convoy and wounded two bodyguards. Al-Jabali was only released after Palestinian President

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

agreed to fire him. He was replaced with Arafat's cousin, Musa Arafat, a move which did little to restore public confidence in Police.

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