RAMALLAH, September 15, 2011 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Authority did not purchase military equipment from Israel as claimed by Israeli reports, Thursday said Adnan Damiri, spokesman for the Palestinian security forces.

He said in a press release that the PA did not buy any military equipment from Israel in the past or the present, and all equipment of the Palestinian security forces were bought or delivered from Europe or Russia and they enter the Palestinian Territory, with a prior and complicated Israeli administrative approval, through Israeli ports.

He said Israel usually impedes delivering the military equipment to the PA and usually withholds them.

“Israel is trying to politically employ media fabrication in this exact time in line with its effort to stop the Palestinian leadership from requesting a membership of the Palestinian state in the United Nations General Assembly and to negatively affect the Palestinian public opinion,” said Damiri.

He demanded that the Israeli authority should pursue settlers who escalate their daily assaults against mosques, schools, farms and the Palestinians in attempt to provoke violent reactions from the Palestinian public, which is what the Israeli leadership wishes for to resolve its current political crisis.

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