Can PA end arms proliferation in West Bank?
The Palestinian Authority has ratified draft legislation on firearms and ammunition licensing fees in a bid to create a monopoly on arms in the West Bank.
![ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/ Masked Palestinian militants hold their weapons during the funeral of Maysara Abu Hamdeya in the West Bank city of Hebron April 4, 2013. Thousands of mourners turned out on Thursday for the funerals of three Palestinians, including two teenagers killed by Israeli army gunfire in some of the worst violence in the occupied West Bank in years. The upsurge in unrest was triggered on Tuesday by the death of Hamdeya, a 64-year-old prisoner serving a life term in an Israeli jail and suffering from cancer. REUTERS/](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2017/01/RTXY812.jpg/RTXY812.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=z2Wgiuhm)
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