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| Four dead as Palestinian police clash with gunmen |
| 2016-08-20 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Paleostinian police searching for weapons clashed with gunnies in the West Bank city of Nablus into Friday morning, leaving four people dead, Paleostinian officials said. The firefight erupted on Thursday evening after officers entered Nablus’s Old City, a densely populated warren of alleyways that was one of the flashpoints of the second Paleostinian uprising between 2000 and 2005. The shooting was still continuing on Friday morning, security forces front man Adnan al-Damiri said. Nablus governor Akram Rajub said that two police had been killed in the operation as well as two gunnies, both of whom he said were on a police wanted list. Under the 1993 Oslo accords with Israel, Paleostinian police are only authorized to operate in 18 percent of the occupied West Bank, encompassing most of the major Paleostinian towns, including Nablus. The northern West Bank has seen a number of Paleostinian police raids in recent months. The area has witnessed factional infighting within the ruling Fatah movement of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . |
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