Yasser Arafat dismissed two senior Palestinian security officials. Palestinian officials said Arafat on Tuesday fired Jibril Rajoub, the head of the security service in the West Bank, and Ghazi Jabali, the Palestinian police chief in the Gaza Strip.
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