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Ramallah sends ministers to Jenin, cracks down on Islamic Jihad after IDF operation

2023-07-10

[IsraelTimes] Fatah-controlled Paleostinian Authority appears to try to reassert control over city in face of rival groups

A delegation of three ministers from the Fatah-led Paleostinian Authority visited the city of Jenin on Sunday and met with local officials, apparently as part of an effort to reassert the PA’s presence and clout in the city following the IDF operation against gangs there last week.

The army operation revealed the level of armament and organization of terror groups in the city, most importantly the Jenin Battalion, a local wing of 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, which has been operating outside the control of the Ramallah-based PA.

The PA is increasingly seen by some Paleostinians as collaborating with Israel rather than fighting for their rights.

At a mass funeral held last Wednesday for some of the button men killed in the IDF operation, senior Fatah leaders were met with heckling and shouting from the angry crowd.

Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy to 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....
, Azzam al-Ahmad, head of Fatah’s Central Committee, and other senior Fatah leaders were driven out of the event with participants shouting, "Get out!" as they raged against Fatah’s alleged neglect of the "resistance."

To remedy the setback, deputy al-Aloul returned to the city three days later on July 8, for what appeared to be a friendly conciliatory meeting with the Jenin Battalion.

On Sunday, three PA ministers came from Ramallah to visit the city and meet officials. Interior Minister Ziyad Hab al-Reeh, Health Minister Mai al-Kaila and Local Government Minister Majdi al-Saleh inspected the areas that were subject to Israeli incursion in the refugee camp and met with the Jenin Governor Akram Rajoub and Mayor Nidal al-Obeidi.

According to the PA’s official media outlet al-Hayat al-Jadida, the three ministers conveyed Mahmoud Abbas’s instructions for a reconstruction plan for the city and refugee camp. The health minister also met with the director of a Jenin hospital treating the maimed from the operation.

The Jordan-based Paleostinian opposition website Amad, commenting on the visit, ran an editorial noting that the Fatah presence seen in Jenin in the past 48 hours had not been seen in years, as the movement was too absorbed in its internal organizational questions and in "awaiting the post-Mahmoud Abbas era."

The outlet claimed that Fatah is better at managing Israel’s security than the Paleostinians’ own, and its leadership "only reacts, it does not act with a vision."

Commenting on the meeting between Fatah officials and the Jenin Battalion, it said that Fatah put up a performance "only for self-publicity" that conferred it neither honor nor power. The leadership has not yet realized the extent of the "conspiracy" that is building up against it, the editorial concludes.

In parallel with the visits by ministers, the Paleostinian Authority has adopted harsher methods to reestablish its control over Jenin. According to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-linked news site Palinfo, the PA has launched a crackdown on the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin area in recent days.

PA forces reportedly detained two men at a flying checkpoint set up during the IDF action as they were on their way to fight in Jenin. The two men, Murad Walid Malayshe (34) and Muhammad Walid Barahme (37), spent over 10 years in Israeli prisons for terror-related activities and are among "the most wanted by Israel," according to Palinfo.

On Thursday, journalist Ahmed al-Betawi was reportedly arrested, as well as an "activist" from near Hebron named Louay Qabaja, who was allegedly detained for a Facebook post and has been on hunger strike ever since.

The crackdown against Islamic Jihad members in Jenin continued on the night between Saturday and Sunday, with the arrest of two other PIJ members including Ahmad Salatneh, director of a Jenin charity group affiliated with the Islamic Jihad.

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