Shin Beth blackmails Jerusalem medical students
Aletho / Aletho
13-May-2010

The Shin Bet is reportedly trying to entice Palestinian medical
students to join the Israeli intelligence service by promising entry
permits to al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The spying agency allegedly tried to blackmail two fifth-year
medical students at al-Quds University who are pursuing internships in
Palestinian university hospitals in the city, Israel’s English-language
Haaretz newspaper said on its website on Wednesday.

A “Captain Biran” who introduced himself as the Shin Bet agent
responsible for monitoring the university told the two to report on
other students and their activities as a condition for renewing their
entry permits, Haaretz reported.

The medical faculty of the university — located in the village of
Abu Dis near East al-Quds — is affiliated with some of the oldest and
largest hospitals in al-Quds and have up to 200 students of medicine,
nursing and physiotherapy who need entry permits to enter the occupied
city.

Hospital officials file requests to authorities of the al-Quds Civil
Administration in the settlement of Beit El who at the discretion of
the Shin Bet issue permits valid for between three and six months.

One of the two Palestinians in question encountered the recruitment
request in mid 2009 after his entry permit into al-Quds was not renewed
following his pilgrimage to Mecca. He was then told by the Civil
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