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2023-07-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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After IDF raid, Abbas lays wreath for ‘martyrs’ during first visit to Jenin in years
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian security forces deploy in West Bank city and camp as PA leader arrives by helicopter, in visit that analysts believe will do little to boost his waning authority there.
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....
arrived Wednesday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on his first visit in over a decade, a week after the largest Israeli counterterror raid there in years.
Twelve Paleostinians — all of whom Israel says were combatants — and one Israeli soldier were killed in the two-day raid on Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp, a regular site of fierce fighting between Israeli forces and armed Paleostinian factions.
Soon after the raid, several brass hats of Abbas’s Fatah party, including deputy chairman Mahmoud Aloul, visited the camp only to be heckled by crowds of angry residents.
Abbas arrived on Wednesday by helicopter.
He laid a wreath at "the new deaders’ cemetery," according to the PA’s official Wafa news agency, which made a point of stressing that "nine deaders who died in the recent aggression" were buried there.
Ahead of Abbas’s arrival, hundreds of soldiers from the presidential guard were seen patrolling the streets of the camp and snipers took positions on rooftops.
Video shared on Paleostinian social media showed PA security forces appearing to block several Israeli military vehicles from entering Jenin. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
The Jenin refugee camp was established in 1953 when the West Bank was under Jordanian annexation to house some of the 760,000 Paleostinians who fled or were expelled from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel’s founding in 1948, an event Paleostinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe." Israel captured Jenin and the rest of the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. The PA later established a presence in Jenin and other parts of the West Bank as part of the 1990s Oslo Accords.
Over time, the camp’s original tents have been replaced by concrete, and it now resembles something closer to a neighborhood.
Looking at the photo at the link, it looks exactly like a Palestinian neighbourhood. The camp, which houses some 18,000 people, was also a hotbed of terror activity during the Second Intifada of the early 2000s, which for Israelis became synonymous with the suicide kaboom s and bus bombings that led to the deaths of over 1,000 civilians and soldiers. The uprising also saw intense festivities with Israelis troops that left over 3,000 Paleostinians dead.
Over the past 18 months, the security situation in the camp has tanked, with the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority having little real presence there.
Abbas, 87, last visited Jenin in 2012 but did not tour the camp at the time.
While the PA remains somewhat present in the city, it has largely abandoned the camp to local gangs such as the Jenin Brigade, which Israel alleges is backed by Iran.
Abbas had previously visited the camp itself in 2004 while running for the PA presidential election after the death of leader Yasser Arafat.
Abbas’s leadership has come under criticism from Paleostinians over rampant corruption in the PA and the lack of any progress toward independence. Just 17% of Paleostinians are satisfied with Abbas’s leadership and 80% want him to resign, according to a Paleostinian public opinion poll in June. 
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