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2024-12-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian journalist shot dead in Jenin; family blames PA, which blames ‘outlaws’
[IsraelTimes] Death of Shatha al-Sabbagh comes as PA security services clash with terror operatives in West Bank city; family says shooting happened with no fighting nearby

A Paleostinian journalist was rubbed out overnight at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, with her family on Sunday accusing the Paleostinian Authority’s security forces of killing her while she was with her mother and two small children.

Shatha al-Sabbagh, a journalism student and independent news hound in her early 20s, was killed by a bullet to the head, which her family said was fired by a security forces sniper while there was no fighting going on in the vicinity.

The security forces of the PA, however, blamed local Paleostinian terror group fighters, saying she was shot during nighttime festivities at the camp.

PA security forces have been carrying out an operation against terror groups in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, killing and detaining members of Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, seizing weapons, and neutralizing bombs.

The crackdown came after terror operatives stole two PA vehicles and paraded them through Jenin earlier this month.

The Paleostinian Authority security forces said in a statement Sunday that the "heinous crime was committed by outlaws inside the Jenin camp."

But her family insisted that the PA security forces were responsible.

She was killed by "a sniper’s bullet from the security forces of the Paleostinian Authority in a heinous crime," the family said in a statement released on Sunday. "As the family of martyr Shatha al-Sabbagh, we hold the Paleostinian Authority and its security forces directly responsible for this crime."

Describing the incident, the family said she was with her mother when she was shot in a neighborhood that was "fully lit... and there were no festivities" at the time.

"Despite this, the snipers of the security forces shot her directly," the statement said.

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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
-based Paleostinian terror group Hamas, which also maintains a presence in the West Bank, also accused the PA forces of killing her.

"The coldblooded and deliberate killing of journalist Shatha... is a criminal act that adds to the dark record of these security apparatuses, which have committed crimes of killing, arresting and mistreating our people," said Hamas, which itself has widely been involved over the years in abuse and persecution against critics in Gaza, as well as countless terror attacks and atrocities against Israelis, including during its October 7, 2023, invasion and massacre.

The Paleostinian Journalists Syndicate called for an independent investigation to uncover the circumstances of Sabbagh’s death.

Her death brings to 11 the total number of deaths since the festivities began on December 5.

The PA has a relatively strong presence in southern and central West Bank cities, where it has managed to maintain public order. But in the northern part of the territory, especially the refugee camps in the Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarem areas, the PA has struggled to exercise authority against the terror groups there.

As the PA faces a legitimacy crisis over its failure to deliver Paleostinian statehood or even hold elections, its popularity has waned significantly, particularly in the northern West Bank where rivals have taken up weapons and challenged its authority.

Rival factions of 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....
’s Fatah party have condemned the recent arrests, accusing the security forces of collaborating with Israel.


… Overnight, a Palestinian journalist was killed in Jenin.

Tensions are boiling.



Posted by trailing wife 2024-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 Well, the PA hires outlaws, so it explains itself.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-12-30 08:40||   2024-12-30 08:40|| Front Page Top

#2 One band of outlaws blames a different band of outlets. The other day Israel's foreign minister stated the new government of Syria is composed of 'gangsters'.
Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-12-30 10:30||   2024-12-30 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 'different band of outlaws' I should have written
Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-12-30 10:30||   2024-12-30 10:30|| Front Page Top

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