Local Palestinian platforms reported on Thursday that clashes broke out between the Authority’s security services and gunmen in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian media said, “Resistance fighters were able to seize two Palestinian security vehicles.”
She explained that “the seizure of the two vehicles” came “in response to the Palestinian Authority’s arrest of wanted persons” by the Israeli occupation.
The sources described the clashes as “violent,” noting that they broke out due to “the security services’ arrest of a number of people persecuted by the occupation” in the Jenin camp.
#video | Circulating scenes document the Jenin Brigade taking control of two vehicles of the Authority’s security services in protest against their arrest of resistance fighters from the Jenin camp. pic.twitter.com/6pTS0IXLGV
– Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) December 5, 2024
She added that the Authority’s security forces were stationed on the roofs of buildings in the vicinity of the Jenin camp, and the area witnessed an exchange of fire with the resistance fighters.
Palestinian media platforms published pictures of two vehicles with a group of armed men on board “while they were roaming the streets of Jenin.”
Palestinian security services push military reinforcements towards the outskirts of Jenin camp pic.twitter.com/WZgA5zrujs
– Al-Qastal News (@AlQastalps) December 5, 2024
Clashes usually break out between resistance fighters and Palestinian security personnel in the cities of the northern West Bank, especially in Jenin and Tulkarm, coinciding with the continuous invasions of the occupation forces and Israeli settlers’ attacks and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The Palestinian Authority security services are accused of arresting people wanted by the Israeli occupation, which further complicates the situation in the West Bank.
The authorities in the occupied West Bank – according to human rights data – arrest more than 150 Palestinian citizens, including resistance fighters and those persecuted by the occupation, university students, detained editors, preachers, writers and journalists, and the authorities refuse to release them, despite the issuance of judicial decisions to release them more than once.
