Fatah gunmen marching in Halhul in support of President Mahmoud Abbas. This is likely occurring because of the recent protests against the Palestinian Authority's recent killing of one of its critics, Nizar Banat. #WestBank pic.twitter.com/02swbefX7P
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Palestinian labor minister to quit amid protests over activist’s death
[IsraelTimes] Nasri Abu Jaishto to resign on Monday as his Left-wing Paleostinian People’s Party withdraws from PA government over death in jug of Nizar Banat.The labor minister in the Paleostinian Authority will resign, a member of his party said Sunday, as protesters marched for a fourth day demanding 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....
step down.
The left-wing Paleostinian People’s Party has decided to withdraw from the Fatah-led PA government due to "its lack of respect for laws and public freedoms," central committee member Issam Abu Bakr said.
Nasri Abu Jaish, the labor minister and the People’s Party representative in the government, will therefore resign on Monday, Abu Bakr told AFP.
Demonstrations against the PA erupted Thursday following the
Banat, a 43-year-old known for social media videos denouncing alleged corruption within the PA, died on Thursday shortly after security forces stormed his house, beat him, and dragged him away, his family said.
The PA has announced the opening of an investigation into Banat’s death, but it has done little to appease anger on the streets.
On Sunday evening, protesters defied a heavy deployment of security forces, holding up photographs of the activist as they marched in the West Bank, in Banat’s hometown of Hebron.
In Ramallah, the seat of the PA, protesters demanded those responsible for Banat’s death be held accountable, while several supporters of the Fatah party of Abbas gathered to shout slogans backing the president.
The Paleostinian Journalists Syndicate called for the dismissal of the PA police chief "due to the police’s failure to protect journalists who were attacked, prevented from reporting and threatened" within view of coppers at the protests.
According to the autopsy, injuries indicated Banat had been beaten on the head, chest, neck, legs, and hands, with less than hour elapsing between his arrest and his death, doctor Samir Abu Zarzour said.
On Saturday, protesters in Ramallah hurled rocks at Paleostinian security forces, who opened fire with a barrage of tear gas canisters, with reports of several injured.
Paleostinian human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
group al-Haq on Sunday accused security forces of "attacking the participants with batons and rocks" while dragging others to the ground and beating them, adding that some suffered head injuries.
Protesters called for 86-year-old Abbas to quit.
Banat had registered as a candidate in Paleostinian parliamentary elections, which had been set for May until Abbas postponed them indefinitely. The president’s original mandate expired in 2009 and he has since governed by decree.
In April, Abbas declared that legislative and presidential polls set for May and July respectively should not be held until Israel guaranteed voting could take place in annexed East Jerusalem.
Al-Haq warned there had been a "serious regression on public rights and freedoms" since the decision to scrap the elections.
In addition to holding the presidency, Abbas is also head of Fatah and president of the Paleostine Liberation Organisation (PLO), recognized internationally as representing the Paleostinians.
But Fatah faces a growing challenge from its longtime rivals, the Islamist terror organization Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, which rules the Paleostinian coastal enclave of 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...