On the first day of the new year, the Palestinian Authority sent a security force to Tel Aviv Tribune’s office in the occupied West Bank to inform its employees of its closure, at a time when the entire Palestinian cause is facing an attempted liquidation.
The authority’s decision comes a few months after an Israeli military force raided Tel Aviv Tribune’s office in Ramallah last September in order to close it, in a scene that appeared “as if the authority, with its decision, was completing the work of the occupier,” according to a report broadcast by Tel Aviv Tribune by journalist Fatima Al-Triki.
The report asked about the reasons that push the authority to rush beyond mere security coordination to direct confrontation with those who reject it and the resistance fighters inside the West Bank – which is surrounded by settlements and faces the threat of annexation – under the title of “protecting the homeland.”