Fighting Israel’s war – why the Palestinian Authority is attacking Jenin
The funeral of Palestinian teenager Rebhi Shalabi, killed by Palestinian Authority security forces in Jenin, December 2024
Robert Inlakesh reports in The Palestine Chronicle on 17 December 2024:
The Palestinian Authority’s security forces are conducting an operation to murder and arrest resistance fighters in the Jenin refugee camp, using armored vehicles, raiding homes, arresting combatants, and shooting people dead in the streets. This campaign has been launched amidst fears that Israel will soon annex the West Bank.
As Israel continues to approve further confiscation of West Bank lands, illegal settlement expansion, encourages Israeli settler terrorism,m and paves the way to annexing the territory formally, the Palestinian Authority (PA) launches an armed crackdown on Palestinian anti-occupation fighters.
During the first days of its crackdown on the Jenin camp – besieging it and raiding the area with armored vehicles – PA security forces murdered Palestinian teenager Rebhi Shalabi and senior Jenin Brigades Commander Yazi Jaayseh.
Replicating how Israeli forces usually assault the embattled refugee camp, the PA justified its actions by claiming that its human rights violations and field executions were geared to “maintain public security and order, establish the rule of law, and prevent sedition and chaos in the Jenin camp