
 While  Palestinian Authority officials put the focus on winning concessions from  Israel, a recent WorldNetDaily report indicates that they may face a greater  challenge – a Hamas uprising from within. Support for Hamas is growing within PA  ranks, WND said, as it did in Gaza prior to the 2007 Hamas takeover of the  region.
Quoting PA sources, WND said several members of Fatah had  recently been arrested for helping Hamas to establish an infrastructure in  Shechem. Fatah members helped a doctor smuggle roughly $1 million to Hamas for  the purpose of buying weapons, the sources said.
Hamas is suspected of  rebuilding its terrorist infrastructure in other Judea and Samaria cities as  well. Hamas terrorists in Jenin recently managed to obtain hundreds of  high-powered assault rifles, PA officials said.
In addition, PA officials  suspect that Hamas is infiltrating Fatah by secretly recruiting members,  including those in the PA armed forces. Many young members of the forces have  received military training from the US, as part of a plan to train the PA to  fight terrorist uprisings.
Hamas is believed by many PA analysts to have  infiltrated Fatah in Gaza prior to its takeover of Gaza in 2007. The fight for  Gaza was relatively swift and bloodless – of the several tens of thousands of  armed Hamas and Fatah members in Gaza, slightly more than 100 were killed, and  Hamas completed its takeover in under one week. Some analysts believe the Hamas  victory was swift because many Fatah fighters stood aside and willingly allowed  the Islamic group to seize control.
Hamas has previously threatened to conquer Judea and Samaria, but more recently has made  overtures to Fatah and is seeking reunification. 
PA Troops Jailed for Terrorism
The WND  report came as PA officers were arrested on suspicion of involvement in  terrorism. According to PA media, Israeli troops arrested two members of the  PA's US-trained forces, one of them a member of the elite Presidential Guard  unit.
A third PA officer, Salim Ubayat, was recently convicted and  sentenced for terrorist attacks on Israel. Ubayat was convicted of membership in  the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, of planning bombing attacks and of carrying out  shooting attacks in Judea and Samaria.