"Gaza - Ahmed Yousef, the political advisor to the PA premier Ismail Haneyya, has accused the PA presidential guards and other armed elements of premeditating the assassination attempt of Haneyya on his return to the Rafah terminal from a tour abroad.
He told a press conference on Sunday evening that the delegates, accompanying Haneyya, succeeded in convincing thousands of Palestinians who came to greet the premier to push back in order to allow Haneyya and his delegation to enter through the Rafah terminal without problems and they did that.
Yousef said that around 0800 pm (local time) two trucks and four jeeps arrived at the terminal loaded with gunmen who were deployed on all sides of the terminal and over rooftops.
The advisor, who was injured in the attempt, said that on reaching the cars the armed men opened fire. "We found ourselves the target of intensive shooting," he said, affirming that the bodyguards accompanying Haneyya had only pistols while the gunmen were using machineguns.
"They wanted to liquidate all those in the motorcade because we were the only ones present in the outside plaza," Yousef charged, adding that he along with Abdul Salam Haneyya and the driver of their car were hit while one of the bodyguards who surrounded Haneyya was killed.
What happened was a premeditated plot by certain parties to assassinate Haneyya and all those with him, the advisor charged and demanded the formation of an investigation committee to question all workers at the terminal and to arrest all presidential guards who were present at the time of the attempt."
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