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| Report: Israel offered PA full security duties over city as pilot, Ramallah refused |
| 2023-03-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] Plan backed by Jordan would seek to reduce violence during arrest raids; but PA said to fear delegitimization for cooperating with Israel. Israel and Jordan recently offered the Paleostinian Authority a pilot program that would leave security responsibility over a single West Bank city entirely in the hands of the PA, in an attempt to reduce tensions caused by recent deadly Israeli raids, according to a Thursday report. According to an unsourced Channel 12 news report, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II secretly discussed the proposal in their meeting in January. The plan would reportedly see Paleostinian security forces given sole responsibility for conducting arrests of suspected terror operatives and maintaining law and order in either the city of Tulkarem or Qalqilya, thereby avoiding If the pilot were successful, it could then be expanded to other cities, the report said. According to Channel 12, the PA was uninterested in the offer, believing that it would weaken its already-dire status in the eyes of many Paleostinians, as they would be seen as fully cooperating with Jerusalem on arrests. Although Tulkarem and Qalqilya are part of Area A — West Bank land under PA civilian and security control — the IDF regularly enters the territory to conduct arrests. Such incursions have increased significantly over the past year as Israel has sought to combat an ongoing terror wave stemming largely from the northern West Bank, where the PA has lost significant control. |
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