In the current drive against terrorists, which resulted in four arrests in Jaffa yesterday, the Palestine police have apprehended a number of persons charged with extorting money from private individuals for terrorist activities, an official announcement said today.
The arrests resulted in the discovery of a list of contributors, the announcement added, and several of them were seized for interrogation and warned that the police will consider all contributors equally responsible with the terrorists for any outbreaks.
Meanwhile, the Government today published a decree in the official gazette raising the punishment for incitement to overthrow the government or organization of terroristic activities to from three to ten years imprisonment.
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