Rajoub also said that large amounts of automatic weapons, ammunition and drugs were confiscated from the place where the brothers were found.Official PA television aired photos of an automatic weapon, hundreds of bullets, several magazines and drugs, which it said were in the brothers’ possession.Neither Rajoub nor official PA media gave the names or ages of the brothers.However, an official in the PA security forces identified them to The Jerusalem Post as Ahmad Muhammad Essa, 29, also known as “al-Dalhi,” and Mahmoud Muhammad Essa, 26. He said that Ahmad was shot dead whereas Mahmoud was arrested and transferred to a PA prison in Jericho.According to the PA security official, Ahmad was the ringleader of a drug and weapons trafficking operation in Balata, while Mahmoud had been serving as one of his assistants.Over the past several years, violent clashes have frequently broken out in Balata between PA security forces and Palestinians suspected of various crimes.Last March, a member of the PA security forces was killed in a gun fight in Balata with another Palestinian suspected of drug and weapons trafficking.#فيديو: اشتباكات مسلحة بين الأجهزة الأمنية الفلسطينية وشبان خلال اقتحامها مخيم بلاطة شرق نابلس قبل قليل. pic.twitter.com/2EsmdZVn1v
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Suspected Palestinian drug trafficker killed in gunfight with PA forces
Over the past several years, violent clashes have frequently broken out in Balata between PA security forces and Palestinians suspected of various crimes.
