-- Scene Four On the other side of the crossing, as tension thickened in the air, two small trucks emerged. They were not like the usual cargo trucks, but rather armored vehicles specially designed for transporting money. The sight alone was enough to spark suspicion; each truck was driven by a silent driver, and beside him sat a member of the Palestinian organization, his features stern, his eyes gleaming beneath the beams of military spotlights. Directly behind them advanced two small civilian cars—but what these cars carried inside was anything but ordinary. In the first car, Abu al-Bara al-Ghazzawi sat behind the wheel, his hand clenched tightly around it as if dragging a heavy fate along with him. Beside him was Abu Mu’adh al-Shati, staring out the window with the cool indifferenc

