Jenin: Palestinian Authority suppresses resistance (& Al Jazeera)
JVL Introduction
The Jenin Brigades have long disapproved of the PA’s collaboration with Israel on matters of security and believe that all Palestinians should fight to end Israel’s occupation of the city and the West Bank. The Brigades have always been keen not to get into confrontation with the PA, despite their criticism of them and especially of their collaboration with Israel over security in Area A towns, a responsibility they ostensibly gained under the heavily criticised Oslo Accords. Of course, Israel has conducted incursions, destruction, arrests and killings in Jenin Camp on many occasions but, since early December, it is the Palestinian Authority that has laid siege to and since mid December also raided Jenin Camp in its attempts to bring order and security there and to disarm the Jenin Brigades who see themselves as the resistance. The main article below describes the impact on people in the Camp as well as the tensions. (there are short videos in the original article). “Although this is not the first such PA campaign against Jenin camp, it is the first during Israel’s war on Gaza and amid ongoing Israeli attacks on the camp, which has been raided more than 80 times over the past year, resulting in more than 220 deaths and thousands of injuries, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.”
Now the PA has clamped down on Al Jazeera for what it considers coverage sympathetic to the Jenin Brigades. Before the full article, we also publish Al Jazeera’s condemnation of the PA’s decision to ban it from most of the West Bank. (and remember that in September Israeli forces closed Al Jazeera office in Ramallah for an initial 45 days) This too relates to what is happening in Gaza.
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This article was originally published by Al Jazeera on Thu 19 Dec 2024. Read the original here.
Palestinian Authority refuses to back down in fight with Jenin fighters
Residents in the Jenin camp have lived with days of clashes between PA security forces and local fighters.
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The Palestinian Authority, under Abbas, has already lost any semblance of credibility it may have had in the West Bank. The PA knows it is lost its grip on the Palestinians. Members of the Zionist government have already made calls for unfunding of the PA and transferring of powers over all areas of the West Bank to the occupiers. The PA is nothing more than the pub-bouncer, protecting the landlords’ property, under the pretext of maintaining “order” and “security”. It’s oppressing its own people, just like the Zionists are doing to all Palestinians across the occupied territories. I’m afraid, if the PA thinks it can use force against a people, who have suffered decades of abductions, deliberate killing, torture, violence, sexual abuse and imprisonment without trial, forced out of their homes and forced to live in the gutter – the fate of the PA and its Occupation-funded violence will meet with the same resistance as the Occupiers.
How many Israeli personnel do people think are embedded into the PA, or do the PA just do Israel’s dirty work without any actual Israeli military ?
Either way, they need to either get on code – start defending Palestinians – or step aside.