NEW PALESTINIAN APPOINTMENTS

Palestinian militants and supporters of the Fatah movement demonstrate against the appointment of Musa Arafat, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's nephew, as the new head of the Palestinian general security service, at the Khan Younis refugee camp in Southern Gaza Strip July 17, 2004. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Fatah, rejected Musa Arafat's appointment, saying it would open the doors to "internal conflict" and calling him a symbol of corruption. Arafat approved a long-waited overhaul of his security apparatus, cutting the eight separate services to three, senior aide Nabil Abu Rudeina said. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)