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Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority has allowed it to resume work in West Bank

2025-05-13

[IsraelTimes] Qatari network was banned by PA from broadcasting in the territory following ‘misinformation’ and ‘incitement’ in its coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups

Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau chief said Monday that the news channel can resume working in the West Bank, after Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
lifted a ban that had been in place since January.

"Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to lift the ban on the Al Jazeera network and allow its crews to resume work in the Paleostinian territories starting tomorrow morning," Waleed Omari said, in a statement to the Israeli-Paleostinian Foreign Press Association.

A Paleostinian official confirmed the removal of the ban to AFP, but the PA did not issue a formal announcement.

The Paleostinian Authority in January ordered the temporary suspension of Al Jazeera broadcasts across the West Bank, against the backdrop of the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups in the territory.

The PA accused the network of "misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Paleostinian internal affairs."

In late December, Al Jazeera had condemned what it said was an "incitement campaign" by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party against the network in some areas of the West Bank.

"This campaign follows the network’s coverage of festivities between Paleostinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin," Al Jazeera said in a statement at the time, lionizing the anti-PA fighters, many of whom were affiliated with the Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror groups.

The Qatari broadcaster has close ties with Hamas and has long been accused of having a distinct anti-Israel slant.

The network is already banned from broadcasting from Israel, amid a long-running feud with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has only worsened during the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza.

A court, reviewing the temporary ban, determined that there was a "close connection" between Al Jazeera and Hamas, that some Al Jazeera news hounds in Gaza had turned themselves into "assistants and partners" with Hamas, and that some of them had even carried out terror attacks.

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Abbas planning to replace longtime spy chief, capping off purge of PA security heads

2025-03-26

[IsraelTimes] PA president under growing pressure to make space for new generation of leaders, as world community hopes Ramallah can gear-up to take on larger task of resuming governance in Gaza

The world community is full of fools. Ramallah’s PLO/PA can’t, even if Israel would trust them to try.

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
is planning to replace his longtime intelligence chief Majed Faraj, capping off a wider purge of security heads in Ramallah that began several months ago, a Paleostinian official, a European diplomat and a Paleostinian source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.

Faraj is one of Abbas’s closest confidants and has worked to bolster security coordination with Israel in the West Bank since becoming head of the PA’s General Intelligence Service in 2009.

But Abbas is facing mounting pressure from Arab and Western allies to reform the Paleostinian Authority and make way for a new generation of leaders, so that the PA is better equipped to potentially take on the larger task of once again governing Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
after the war there. After Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
~~violent~~ mostly peacefully took power there in 2007, pushing out Abbas’s Fatah faction.

Fatah being the largest faction in the PLO, and therefore of its figleaf, the PA.

Last March, Abbas fired all of his ministers and formed a new cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa, another longtime ally. In recent months and weeks, he has replaced the heads of the PA’s Security Forces, Preventive Security Service, police and civil defense. Three of those four agencies are now headed by former senior members of Abbas’s security detail.

Not looking far afield, then, to bring in young, new blood with new ideas.

Faraj is the last security chief to remain in his post, and the three sources speaking to The Times of Israel said he is hoping to avoid the fate of his now-former counterparts. At the very least, Faraj is hoping to shift to a spot on the Paleostine Liberation Organization’s powerful Executive Committee.

The sources said a final decision regarding Faraj’s fate is expected in the coming weeks, with the PA president likely to appoint a new intel chief. Spokespeople for Abbas and Faraj did not respond to requests for comment.

In a further bid to address demands from allies and donor countries to reform the PA, the 89-year-old Abbas

….oh my — I hadn’t realized he was quite that elderly…

announced earlier this month that he would create the position of vice president in addition to granting amnesty to expelled members of his Fatah party.

A placeholder to run things until a new Number 1 is chosen — or chooses himself — after President Abbas dies in office?

Speaking at a Cairo summit of Arab leaders to discuss plans for the post-war management of Gaza, Abbas said he would also soon convene the PLO’s long-dormant legislative body, the central council.

Soon being totally undefined, we note. Not that it matters— the PLO is not capable of holding Gaza, which has an entirely different set of clans.

Abbas, who has not stood for elections since winning a four-year term in 2006,

…now approaching his sixth extension of that four year term…

insisted he is willing to do so if Israel allows balloting in East Jerusalem.

Israel annexed East Jeruslaem in 1980, taking it off the table, but President Abbas like to pretend he would hold elections if he could, though all know that his party would lose resoundingly to Hamas if elections were actually held. This is why they have not been since Hamas drove the PLO out of Gaza.

In November, Abbas declared that if his post were to become vacant before elections are held, he would be temporarily replaced by Rawhi Fattouh, the former speaker of the Paleostinian Legislative Council.

A statement posted to the PA’s official Wafa news site said that in such an event, Fattouh would serve as interim president for no more than 90 days, during which presidential elections would be held. But if it were not possible to hold elections, the Paleostinian Central Council could grant a one-time extension to the interim president’s term.

Another reform announced by Abbas in February — which was aggressively pushed by Western countries — saw the cancellation of legislation that conditioned welfare payments to Paleostinian security prisoners on the length of their sentence in Israeli jails.

A.k.a. Pay to Slay. They like to pretend it’s something else in the new, improved version.

Payments to prisoners and the families of slain attackers have not yet been updated, though, because the cash-strapped PA is running several months behind on the stipends, two Paleostinian officials told The Times of Israel last week.

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Abbas may be the last PA leader who believes in two states, warns potential successor

2025-03-14

[IsraelTimes] Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises Abbas and urges US to engage with him, looking to remain in the Palestinian Authority chief’s good graces while no new election is slated

the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
may be the last Paleostinian leader who believes in a two-state solution and opposes violence as a means for bringing it about, a potential successor to the PA president told The Times of Israel in a recent interview.

And thank goodness for that. It’s not going to happen for at least another generation or two, and it had become tiresome to listen to everyone going on about it.

Abbas "is the last founding pillar of the Paleostinian national movement who believes in two things: making historic reconciliation [with Israel] based on the two-state solution [and] that blood-shedding should not be a choice to achieve [that goal]," said Jibril Rajoub, the secretary-general of Abbas’s Fatah party and a former head of the PA’s security forces.

Rajoub said that Fatah and most of the factions in the Paleostine Liberation Organization still back a two-state solution, "but I don’t think anyone after Abu Mazen (Abbas) could have the courage... to lead [toward a] peace treaty."

Accordingly, Rajoub urged the Trump administration to engage with the PA leader without delay. "Whether we like him or not, [Abbas] is still legitimate, and his baby remains settling this conflict through peaceful means."

It is rare for PLO officials to criticize Abbas, but Rajoub’s decision to go out of his way to hail the PA president in a rare interview with an English-language news outlet pointed to his desire to remain in good standing with him.

While no elections are in the offing and the nearly 90-year-old Abbas has not named a successor, the 71-year-old Rajoub is often listed among those who could replace the PA president, given his strong positioning within Fatah along with other Paleostinian factions.

Those factions include Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, which Rajoub said could be part of the Paleostinian leadership if it accepts PLO obligations, including recognition of Israel and accepting "non-violence as a strategic choice."

Implying an equivalence, he suggested those questioning whether Hamas should be included in Paleostinian politics — particularly after the terror group’s atrocities on October 7, 2023 — were not treating Israeli hardliners with the same skepticism.

"What about the same crazy groups inside Israel? No one is asking about [Itamar] Ben Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich," he claimed, referring to the two far-right party leaders whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu partnered with two years ago to form the government.

Still, Rajoub denounced Hamas’s actions on October 7.

"I know that innocent people, including peace activists, along with women and kiddies were killed that day. No one can support something like that," said Rajoub, who is also the chairman of the Paleostinian Football Association.

"However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the conflict did not start that day," Rajoub argued, pointing to decades of "home demolitions, settlement building, humiliations and killing" of Paleostinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

He claimed that the uptick in these actions under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule has led to an uptick in antisemitism outside of Israel, which has hit record levels in some Western countries following the October 7 attack and subsequent war in Gaza.

"Israelis are now instructed to remove their kippa when abroad," Rajoub said. "Is this what they want?"

Pressed on calls for Paleostinian political reform, given that the entire West Bank-based PA system is dominated by Abbas, Rajoub acknowledged that doing so was necessary and "in our national interest."

The PA has not held elections in nearly 20 years, and Rajoub said such a step would be essential, adding that a future Paleostinian state must uphold the values of "democracy and political pluralism under the principle of one authority, one law and one gun."

"I think that we do need to make reforms... But the corruption in the PA is kindergarten compared to Mr. Bibi and his mafia," he claimed, referencing the Israeli premier’s ongoing criminal trial.

"Still, we should not lose hope, and we should not give up" on the goal of mutual recognition, Rajoub maintained.

"Trust between us is zero. They have their reasons, and we have ours," he continued, arguing that a third party is needed to move the parties in the right direction.

"The third party is the international community, but it should be led by the Americans," Rajoub said. "The Americans are the only ones who can exert pressure on these Israelis."

There was initial optimism in Ramallah that the US would be willing to play such a role in the lead-up to President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
’s return to office when his Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, managed to coax Netanyahu into agreeing to a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas after months of deadlock.

But that feeling dissipated rather quickly, with Trump declaring his desire last month for the US to take over Gaza and permanently relocate all of its residents.

"It’s a shame for this administration to abuse the suffering of innocent people," Rajoub said.

In the more immediate term, though, Washington is more focused on extending the ceasefire in Gaza through additional hostage-prisoner swaps between Israel and Hamas.

Rajoub has a unique perspective on this issue, as he once was released from an Israeli prison during the 1980s through such a deal.

He spent 17 years in jug for violence against Israel. Rajoub said he used the time to study the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.

"My conclusion was that without making space for Israelis’ rational concerns... I can’t achieve my national aspirations," Rajoub said.

"The Israelis — like the Paleostinians — have the right to live in peace, in security, with normalizations... but within the internationally recognized borders," he added, referring to the armistice lines prior to the 1967 Six-Day War.

Speaking to the kind of hostage deal that he would support, Rajoub said, "It should be everybody for everybody, so we can open a new chapter."

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Senior Hamas official says group could step away from governing post-war Gaza, willing to enter talks with US on issue

2025-01-27

Taqqiya, of course, but it’s a start.

[IsraelTimes] Senior Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
politburo official Moussa Abu Marzouk tells the Saudi Al Arabiya news outlet that the terror group is not necessarily seeking to govern the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip in the aftermath of the war it started with Israel on October 7, 2023.

He says that Hamas understands that, going forward, the governing body in the Strip will require both regional and international backing, including the support of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
Last month, Hamas and the PA’s Fatah party agreed to create a committee to jointly administer postwar Gaza.

A draft proposal of the plan acquired by AFP showed that the committee would be comprised of 10-15 nonpartisan figures with authority on matters related to the economy, education, health, humanitarian aid

and reconstruction.

It is unlikely that Israel would agree to the deal, as it has rejected any role for Hamas in Gaza, and has said it does not trust Abbas’s PA to run the enclave.

Dismissing Jerusalem’s say in the matter, Abu Marzouk tells Al Arabiya that Hamas leadership is "open to dialogue with all parties besides Israel" when it comes to formulating a plan for future control of the Gaza Strip.

He says that the group would be willing to negotiate the makeup of the Strip’s government with the US, as it believes that President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
"is a serious president" in light of the ceasefire and hostage release deal that he and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff helped finalize.

He nevertheless criticizes Trump for recent comments suggesting that the enclave should be cleared out and its population sent to Jordan and Egypt.

"No Paleostinian or Arab will accept Trump’s idea of displacement," he warns. "it will not succeed."

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Palestinian Authority has released an unprecedented statement condemning Hamas

2025-01-12

[X]

BREAKING: The Palestinian Authority has released an unprecedented statement condemning Hamas.

"We will not allow Hamas, which gambled with the Palestinian people for Iran’s benefit and caused the destruction of Gaza, to repeat its adventures in the West Bank." pic.twitter.com/6Scjki8qyp
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 11, 2025

Fatah vows not to let Hamas ‘replicate its actions’ in West Bank, slams Iran

[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party issues a rare statement vowing not to “allow Hamas, which sacrificed the interests of the Palestinian people for Iran and caused destruction in the Gaza Strip, to replicate its actions in the West Bank.”

The statement comes as Fatah seeks to rally public opinion in support of its ongoing security operation in the Jenin refugee camp targeting Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other armed terror groups who have gradually gained prominence in the northern West Bank.

The statement notably calls out not just Hamas, but also Iran, which Fatah accuses of bankrolling the various armed groups throughout the West Bank, particularly the so-called Jenin Brigade.

Fatah tears into Hamas’s decision to launch a war against Israel with its October 7 onslaught, which Abbas’s party says has led to the death or injury of over 200,000 Palestinians and “catastrophic conditions” in the Gaza Strip.

“Hamas is now attempting to stir security chaos in the West Bank, thereby continuing its policy that brought disaster upon the Palestinian people,” Fatah says, appearing to again reject Hamas’s strategy of armed conflict with Israel.

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Palestinians say man shot in clashes with settlers as West Bank tensions flare

2025-01-12

Tit for tat violence with provocations from the Arab side going back years before the locals stopped leaving the response to Israeli police and IDF units. Because while the official response resulted in arrests and convictions, it did not stop the attacks.

[IsraelTimes] Several reported injured as Israelis accused of attacking West Bank villages near Nablus, Ramallah and Bethelehem amid spate of alleged revenge raids following terror attack

Paleostinian authorities said a man was shot in the foot and several others were maimed as settlers carried out attacks in three Paleostinian towns Saturday, the latest in a rash of alleged Dire Revenge actions following a terror attack last week.

The Israeli military confirmed that it had responded to violence in two of the incidents while declining to assign blame for what I described as a "disturbance" and "confrontation."

According to official Paleostinian Authority news agency Wafa, citing the mayor of Yatma, the man was shot by an Israeli soldier as Paleostinians from the village attempted to fend off an attack on homesteads by settlers.

Unverified footage posted to social media appeared to show settlers and Paleostinian youths throwing rocks at each other in Yatma.

The IDF also said that after receiving reports of "a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful confrontation" in Yatma, "IDF and Border Police forces arrived at the village within minutes" and broke up the disturbance.

The military also said it was aware of the report that a Paleostinian was injured by gunfire at the scene, and said that "the details of the incident are under investigation."

Wafa also reported several injuries to Paleostinians during a clash with settlers and Paleostinian civilians in the town of Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah.

The military said that the clash in Turmus Ayya involved "mutual stone-throwing."

"IDF and Border Police forces arrived at the village within minutes of receiving the report, used crowd-dispersal measures, and dispersed the ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful disturbance," the IDF said.

On Saturday night, the local Fatah party chief for the village of Kisan reported that some 30 settlers attacked sheepherders near the village, burning tents and damaging equipment for livestock.

The attacks were the latest in a string of incidents that have seen settlers allegedly attack Paleostinians in Dire Revenge for a shooting last week in which Paleostinian ~~bandidos~~ snuffies opened fire on Israeli vehicles passing through the West Bank village of al-Funduq, killing two elderly women and an off-duty cop and maimed at least eight others.

Several Paleostinian villages throughout the West Bank have been attacked in recent days, including al-Funduq, Hajja, Turmusaya and Immatain, according to the Yesh Din organization, which tracks such incidents.

Overnight Thursday, settlers were reported to have raided the village of Khirbet Abu Falah northeast of Ramallah.

Footage showed a building used by farmers on the outskirts of the village going up in flames.

The words "Revenge" and "Funduq" were graffitied in Hebrew on the outer wall of the building with a Star of David, apparently referencing the area where the deadly shooting took place this week.

Other footage from recent attacks have shown cars allegedly doused by settlers going up in flames.

No arrests have been made in connection with any of the alleged settler attacks.

Settler violence against Paleostinians has soared since the October 7, 2023, Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
massacre, and security forces have been accused of turning a blind eye to the attacks.

Prosecution in such cases is exceedingly rare, leading several Western countries to begin sanctioning Israeli faceless myrmidons in the West Bank last year.

The Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) announced late last month that it is investigating a police brass hat on the suspicion that he deliberately refused to investigate incidents of suspected Jewish nationalist attacks in the West Bank, ostensibly to advance his position in the police force.

Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
High Court justices on Monday impatiently demanded answers for the police’s failure to curb settler violence in the southern West Bank.

Israel has long struggled to deal with settler violence successfully but observers say the problem has intensified since far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir became minister in charge of the police two years ago.

Before entering politics, Ben Gvir dismissed settler violence and defended Israelis allegedly involved in such attacks.

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PA halts Al Jazeera West Bank broadcasts amid criticism of its terror crackdown

2025-01-03

[IsraelTimes] Ramallah says Qatari-backed network, which lionized armed groups in northern West Bank, is inciting and misinforming public; move described as temporary, but no end-date given

The Paleostinian Authority on Wednesday ordered the temporary suspension of Al Jazeera broadcasts across the West Bank against the backdrop of the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i-based network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s recent crackdown on terror groups in the territory.

"This decision comes in response to Al Jazeera’s insistence on broadcasting inciting content and reports characterized by misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Paleostinian internal affairs," the official PA news agency Wafa said.

In late December, Al Jazeera condemned what it said was an "incitement campaign" by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s Fatah party against the network in some areas of West Bank.

"This campaign follows the network’s coverage of festivities between Paleostinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin," Al Jazeera said in a statement at the time, lionizing the anti-PA fighters, many of whom affiliated with the Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group.

"During its coverage of the tragic events in Jenin, Al Jazeera ensured the presence of all voices, including those of the resistance fighters and the spokesperson for the Paleostinian security forces," the network claimed.

The security forces of the PA, which exercises limited control over the West Bank, have been engaged in deadly festivities with terror elements since early December, triggered by the arrests of several fighters.

They are fighting members of the Jenin Battalion, most of whom are affiliated with either PIJ or Hamas, whose October 7 onslaught on Israel triggered the ongoing Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war.

The violence in Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of terror groups in the northern West Bank and a frequent target of Israeli military raids, has killed 11 people including PA security personnel and civilians.

Detailing the decision, the PA’s Wafa news site said, "The [PA’s] specialized ministerial committee, comprising the ministries of culture, interior and communications, has decided to suspend broadcasts and freeze all activities of Al Jazeera satellite channel and its office in Paleostine."

"The decision also includes temporarily freezing the work of all journalists, employees, crews and affiliated channels until their legal status is rectified due to Al Jazeera’s violations of the laws and regulations in force in Paleostine," the report said.

Al Jazeera denounced Wednesday’s decision as "an attempt to discourage it from reporting spiraling events in the occupied territories."

The decision was not expected to be implemented in Hamas-run Gaza where the Paleostinian Authority does not exercise power.

Fatah said in its own statement accused the broadcaster of sowing division in "our Arab homeland in general and in Paleostine in particular." The party encouraged Paleostinians not to cooperate with the network.

An Al Jazeera employee contacted by AFP confirmed that the network’s office in Ramallah had received a suspension order on Wednesday.

Later on Wednesday, the channel aired images of what appeared to be PA security officers entering the network’s office in Ramallah and handing over the suspension orders.

Hamas condemned the decision to ban the network.

"This decision aligns with a series of recent arbitrary actions taken by the Authority to curtail public rights and freedoms and to reinforce its security grip on the Paleostinian people," the terror group said in a statement.

"We call on the Paleostinian Authority to immediately reverse this decision ... It is crucial to ensure the continuation of media coverage that exposes the occupation and supports the steadfastness of our people."

The Wednesday decision comes more than three months after Israeli forces raided the network’s office in Ramallah.

The network is already banned from broadcasting from Israel amid a long-running feud with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has only worsened during the ongoing war in Gaza. Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza.

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Palestinian Authority pursuing West Bank terrorists to impress Trump, analysts say

2025-01-02

[IsraelTimes] Semi-autonomous body wishes to show US president-elect it is capable of governing a post-war Gaza; 11 people killed in last month’s clashes between PA forces and terror groups

The Paleostinian Authority is determined to score a win against forces of Evil in the West Bank ahead of US-President elect Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
’s inauguration, aiming to demonstrate its ability to control post-war Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, analysts told AFP.

The security forces of the PA, which exercises limited control over the West Bank, have been engaged in deadly festivities with button men since early December. The arrests of several forces of Evil triggered the skirmishes.

The PA forces are fighting members of the Jenin Battalion group, most of whom are affiliated with either Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
or Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
, whose October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered war in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007 when it ousted the PA in a bloody coup, is the main political rival of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s Fatah party that dominates the PA.

Eleven people — including PA security personnel, forces of Evil and civilians —have been killed in the violence in Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of gangs in the northern West Bank and a frequent target of Israeli military raids.

"What is happening in Jenin is a crucial test for the Paleostinian Authority, which is trying to assert its control and impose security in the region," political analyst Khalil Shahin said.

An official with the Ramallah-based PA, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
to discuss the operation in Jenin, said that Abbas "categorically rejects any mediation... and insists these hard boyz surrender themselves and their weapons."

Anwar Rajab, a front man for the PA’s security forces, said, "There will be no tolerance for this rogue group that operates outside the law."

The intra-Paleostinian festivities erupted amid a major raid by PA forces on the Jenin camp, which came after the December 5 arrest of a Jenin Battalion commander on charges of possessing weapons and illicit funds.

Armed Paleostinian factions in Jenin and elsewhere portray themselves as a more effective resistance to Israel than the PA, which coordinates security matters with Israel.

Analysts say that in Jenin, the PA is trying to prove it can control the violence and demonstrate that it could bring stability to Gaza once the war is over.

Shahin said the PA was trying to "weather the storm" of the Gaza war, Israeli offensives and regional upheavals before Trump takes office in January.

’ILLUSIONS’
“The PA hopes that, after Trump sees its ability to control Jenin, he will support it in governing Gaza after the war, unlike President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant....
," Shahin said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has ruled out any role for the PA or Hamas in governing Gaza after the war ends.

Regardless whether or not it wins them Gaza, a government ought to actually govern the territory it putatively rules, so this is good practice.

During Trump’s first term, US relations with the PA rapidly deteriorated over what the Paleostinians viewed as a series of moves to sideline them.

Perspicacious of them to notice the blatantly obvious.

Trump broke with most of the world by moving the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He also suspended aid to Paleostinians and his "deal of the century" to solve the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict would have seen Israel annex 30 percent of the West Bank.

Hani al-Masri, director of the Paleostinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies, said the timing of the Jenin raid appeared to strategically coincide with the lead-up to Trump’s return to the White House, as well as the possibility of reaching a ceasefire in Gaza after nearly 15 months of war.

In an analysis piece for his institute, Masri warned against the "illusions" of trying to appease Trump or believing he would take a different approach in his second term.

While appeasing President Trump will be extremely painful to the Palestinian self-image, not appeasing him will be even more extremely painful to Palestinian prosperity and world support.

The PA "believes it will be acceptable to the new Trump (presidency) if it lowers" its demands or opposition, Masri said.

While Hamas and Islamic Jihad accuse the PA of effectively serving Israeli interests, many fear a more intense outbreak of intra-Paleostinian violence, against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza and a surge in Israeli military raids and settler attacks in the West Bank.

Videos have circulated showing alleged abuses by Paleostinian security forces, further increasing tensions between the rival camps of the PA and Hamas.

Hamas has condemned "grave violations" by the PA’s forces, while Fatah has denounced those who "legitimize chaos and anarchy."

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Palestinian journalist shot dead in Jenin; family blames PA, which blames ‘outlaws’

2024-12-30

[IsraelTimes] Death of Shatha al-Sabbagh comes as PA security services clash with terror operatives in West Bank city; family says shooting happened with no fighting nearby

A Paleostinian journalist was rubbed out overnight at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, with her family on Sunday accusing the Paleostinian Authority’s security forces of killing her while she was with her mother and two small children.

Shatha al-Sabbagh, a journalism student and independent news hound in her early 20s, was killed by a bullet to the head, which her family said was fired by a security forces sniper while there was no fighting going on in the vicinity.

The security forces of the PA, however, blamed local Paleostinian terror group fighters, saying she was shot during nighttime festivities at the camp.

PA security forces have been carrying out an operation against terror groups in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, killing and detaining members of Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, seizing weapons, and neutralizing bombs.

The crackdown came after terror operatives stole two PA vehicles and paraded them through Jenin earlier this month.

The Paleostinian Authority security forces said in a statement Sunday that the "heinous crime was committed by outlaws inside the Jenin camp."

But her family insisted that the PA security forces were responsible.

She was killed by "a sniper’s bullet from the security forces of the Paleostinian Authority in a heinous crime," the family said in a statement released on Sunday. "As the family of martyr Shatha al-Sabbagh, we hold the Paleostinian Authority and its security forces directly responsible for this crime."

Describing the incident, the family said she was with her mother when she was shot in a neighborhood that was "fully lit... and there were no festivities" at the time.

"Despite this, the snipers of the security forces shot her directly," the statement said.

Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-based Paleostinian terror group Hamas, which also maintains a presence in the West Bank, also accused the PA forces of killing her.

"The coldblooded and deliberate killing of journalist Shatha... is a criminal act that adds to the dark record of these security apparatuses, which have committed crimes of killing, arresting and mistreating our people," said Hamas, which itself has widely been involved over the years in abuse and persecution against critics in Gaza, as well as countless terror attacks and atrocities against Israelis, including during its October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre.

The Paleostinian Journalists Syndicate called for an independent investigation to uncover the circumstances of Sabbagh’s death.

Her death brings to 11 the total number of deaths since the festivities began on December 5.

The PA has a relatively strong presence in southern and central West Bank cities, where it has managed to maintain public order. But in the northern part of the territory, especially the refugee camps in the Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarem areas, the PA has struggled to exercise authority against the terror groups there.

As the PA faces a legitimacy crisis over its failure to deliver Paleostinian statehood or even hold elections, its popularity has waned significantly, particularly in the northern West Bank where rivals have taken up weapons and challenged its authority.

Rival factions of PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s Fatah party have condemned the recent arrests, accusing the security forces of collaborating with Israel.

As Trey said, there is a civil war happening between Hamas and the West Bank. No media outlets are picking it up, because they would never want to portray Hamas or the Palestinian Authority as violent.

No Jews, no news. https://t.co/Ecg4SZrf0J
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 29, 2024

… Overnight, a Palestinian journalist was killed in Jenin.

Tensions are boiling.

BREAKING: Palestinians in the West Bank have taken to the streets to protest Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

They are also protesting Al Jazeera, for whitewashing terrorists to look like “leaders.” Al Jazeera is too radical for Palestinians, but not for Western academics. pic.twitter.com/i3J6ElKwag
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 29, 2024

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Why PA security forces are cracking down on Palestinian terror groups in West Bank

2024-12-28

[IsraelTimes] Rare raid in Jenin aims to bring law and order to a hotbed of terrorism, while trying to position Ramallah to take over governance in Gaza after the war there ends

Gunfire has rung out for days from the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp. But this time, it’s not Israeli forces that are facing off against gangs. It is the forces of the Paleostinian Authority clashing with Paleostinian button men.

The Paleostinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank, launched a rare crackdown earlier this month that has sparked one of the worst armed confrontations between Paleostinians in years. The PA says it wants to bring law and order to what’s long been a hotbed of terrorism and a place where it has little control.

Its ability to contain terror groups there will reverberate far beyond the West Bank. The Paleostinian Authority wants to position itself to take over governance in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip once the war there between Israel and Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
ends, though Jerusalem objects to this. But confronting Paleostinians at a time when many view the authority as a subcontractor for Israel could deepen divisions in Paleostinian society.

Here is a look at the days of fighting between Paleostinians in the West Bank:

FIGHTING RAGES ON THE STREETS AND AT LEAST 5 ARE DEAD
Earlier this month, PA security forces stormed into Jenin refugee camp, a restive terrorist stronghold, and began a crackdown against gangs.

Fighting has raged in the streets of the camp, and armored cars are seen patrolling. Paleostinian security forces have taken over part of a hospital, using it as a base and shooting from inside, according to the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
At least one gunman from the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group and three security force members have been killed, including a captain in the intelligence services whose death was announced Wednesday, according to PA security forces. About 50 people have been arrested.

At least two uninvolved civilians have been killed and some maimed. The fighting prompted the main UN agency for Paleostinian refugees and their descendants, UNRWA, to suspend its services, including schooling. The violence has disrupted safe access for Paleostinians to other services, including water and health. It also has complicated the restoration of services destroyed in previous Israeli raids of the camp.

THE JENIN REFUGEE CAMP EXPLAINED
The urban, built-up refugee camp in the northern West Bank houses Paleostinians whose families were displaced in the 1948 War of Independence surrounding Israel’s creation. It has long been a center for Paleostinian terrorism and a bastion of armed struggle against Israel. The terror groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas operate freely there, and its streets are regularly lined with posters depicting slain fighters as deaders for the Paleostinian cause.

The Paleostinian Authority, which administers the main Paleostinian population centers of the West Bank as part of interim peace agreements with Israel from the 1990s, has little presence in Jenin. Many people view the PA forces with suspicion and see them as serving Israel’s interests because of security coordination that has facilitated Israel’s own crackdowns on Paleostinian terrorism.

The camp and the adjacent city of Jenin have long been targets of Israel in its stated bid to stamp out terrorism. Since the start of the ongoing war against Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, massacre, Israel has raided or carried out ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Jenin multiple times.

According to the PA health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or holy warriors carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 42 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of Israeli security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

RESTORING ORDER — AND LOOKING TO POSTWAR GAZA
According to PA security forces spokesperson Brig. Gen. Anwar Rajab, the raid is meant to impose law and order and restore peace and security. The troops were focused on "eradicating" Iran-backed terror groups that were trying to incite "chaos and anarchy," he added. The raid will end when those goals are reached, according to the security forces.

But the raid is also shining a spotlight on the Paleostinian Authority’s ability to impose order and security in a restive area. With no clear vision for who will administer postwar Gaza, the raid could convince skeptics that the authority has what it takes to rule the coastal enclave. PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
is considering an agreement with Hamas that would create a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war. The committee would report to him.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
’s administration sees a rehabilitated Paleostinian Authority as the best option to govern and secure postwar Gaza. The US has for years invested heavily in training the PA’s security forces, and the administration has seen its reentry into Gaza, after being routed by Hamas in 2007, as a feasible replacement for Hamas.

Israel rejects any role for Hamas in Gaza after the war the terror group started last year, and has also said it does not trust Abbas’s PA to run the enclave.

The incoming Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
administration has not yet laid out its vision for postwar Gaza, but Trump’s first term was overwhelmingly supportive of Israel’s positions.

Paleostinians are not strangers to divisions within their society, with the most prominent the rift between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah party. The parties fought bloody street wars in Gaza before Hamas forced Fatah out of the territory, and the sides have failed to reconcile since.

Since then, the Fatah-dominated Paleostinian Authority has tried to diminish Hamas’s influence in the West Bank, often with Israel’s help.

Reeling from the years-long internal rift, Paleostinians have staged general strikes and protests calling for unity. But the raid could deepen the perception of the Paleostinian Authority as a controller of Israel’s desires and potentially undermine any popular support for it to return to effectively rule Gaza.

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PA says security officer killed ‘by treacherous and cowardly gunfire’ in Jenin during clashes with terrorists

2024-12-24

[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian Authorities officer was killed during clashes with terrorists in the West Bank, the PA security forces announce, marking the second such death in as many days amid ongoing fighting in the Jenin area.

“The officer was killed after he was targeted by treacherous and cowardly gunfire from outlaws in the Jenin camp,” Anwar Rajab, spokesman for the PA’s security force says in a statement.

The incident comes amid a PA crackdown against terror groups in Jenin, which the PA says is to restore security and stability to the area and comes as Ramallah appears to be trying to signal that it could play a significant role in managing a postwar Gaza Strip.

Palestinian rivals of the Fatah party, which dominates the PA, have condemned the arrests and accused the security forces of aiding Israel.

In addition to the two security personnel, three people have been killed since the clashes began on December 5 — two civilians and a field commander of the Jenin armed battalion.

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Commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Tulkarm Battalion, 5 more killed by the Israeli Air Force

2024-12-20

[X]

⚠️BREAKING: The Commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Tulkarm Battalion was killed by the Israeli Air Force in Judea and Samaria.

Good fucking riddance. pic.twitter.com/iWUDktNtRL
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) December 19, 2024

Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade is the armed wing of Fatah.

Six Palestinians said killed in IDF drone strike, raid in West Bank

[IsraelTimes] IDF investigating reports that an 80-year-old woman was killed during clashes in Nablus; top terror operative killed in Tulkarem strike

At least six Paleostinians were killed and several more injured in raids by Israeli forces in the West Bank, authorities said Thursday, as the military sought to clamp down on rising terror activity across the territory.

At least one civilian, an 80-year-old woman, was among those killed, the Paleostinian Authority said.

In Tulkarem, a dronezap killed four Paleostinian button men, according to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet. Another three Paleostinians were seriously injured, according to the PA health ministry.

During the Tulkarem raid, troops used bulldozers to destroy infrastructure and seal off entrances to the city, according to the Ottoman Turkish Anadolu news agency.

The IDF and Shin Bet said later Thursday that the dronezap had killed a senior terror operative who was being financed by Iran, alongside three other Paleostinian button men.

According to the Shin Bet, the target of the strike was Tariq al-Doush, who it identified as one of the commanders of a terror network in Tulkarem.

The Shin Bet said that al-Doush worked to recruit operatives in the past year to carry out attacks, who would be armed with Iranian financing via operatives in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
The operatives in Lebanon who were in contact with al-Doush are members of the Makdah family, who the Shin Bet has accused in the past of working with the IRGC to advance terror attacks in the West Bank.

The network that al-Doush headed was involved in several shooting attacks against IDF troops, checkpoints, and Israeli towns near the West Bank security barrier, the agency said, adding that the network planned to carry out attacks in Israel as well.

Alongside al-Doush, three other button men were killed, including Dosem al-Awfi, who the Shin Bet said was a prominent member of the Tulkarem terror network.

Elsewhere in the West Bank on Thursday, Paleostinian officials charged that Israeli forces had killed two people, one of them an 80-year-old woman, and injured several others during a raid near Nablus.

The military said that it was looking into the reported deaths, without providing additional information.

The PA health ministry in Ramallah said Halima Abu Leil, 80, was fatally shot in the chest and leg during a raid in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy confirmed her death after transporting her to the hospital.

A short while later, the ministry announced the death of a second Paleostinian, a 25-year-old man.

Both the Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
terror group and the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, the armed wing of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s Fatah party, claimed that the second person killed, Qusai Sarouji, was a fighter in their respective terror organizations.

At least four others were maimed during the raid, it said, including two men aged 21 and 22, a 65-year-old man who suffered gunshot wounds, and another individual injured by bullet shrapnel.

The Red Islamic Thingy also accused Israeli forces of firing at its ambulances, "obstructing the delivery of humanitarian and medical services inside the camp."

There was no immediate comment on the accusation by the IDF.

The army said Thursday it had operated in the West Bank to survey the homes of three Death Eaters responsible for a deadly terror attack earlier this year, ahead of their potential demolitions.

In August, 23-year-old Yonatan Deutsch was killed near the Mehola Junction on Route 90, the main north-south artery in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. Hamas took responsibility for the attack.

"The mapping was carried out in preparation for examining the possibility of demolishing the terrorist’s house," the army said.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the PA health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 42 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

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