[IsraelTimes] Street fighting, prompted by PA’s arrest of two button men, signals escalating conflict between Ramallah and local Islamists in northern West Bank cityArmed festivities erupted between the Paleostinian Authority’s security forces and members of local armed terror groups on the streets of Jenin Tuesday night.
The fighting broke out in reaction to the PA’s arrest of two button men in the West Bank town of Jaba’, some 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Jenin, according to the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,-affiliated news website Shehab.
Following the arrests, armed assailants reportedly attacked the headquarters of the Jenin governorate, the local seat of the PA administration, prompting festivities with the PA security forces. The confrontation then moved to the Jenin refugee camp, where the PA forces opened fire and threw tear gas at the button men, storming into the local hospital, according to videos circulating on social media.
The festivities signal an escalating conflict between 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 Paleostinian Authority and local Islamist factions in the Jenin area, most prominently the Jenin Battalion, the local branch of the 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
-based Paleostinian 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...
terror group.
A month ago, the Israeli military carried out a large-scale two-day operation in the Jenin refugee camp to dismantle the terrorist networks operating there and to seize weapons.
As the street fighting broke out Tuesday night, mosques in the refugee camp called on the PA via loudspeakers to release a number of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad members it detained following the IDF operation in the refugee camp in early July, in what local factions claim were "political arrests" and the PA sees as a crackdown on rival Islamist factions that have undermined its control over the northern West Bank for years.
In particular, local factions ask for the release of Khaled al-Ararawi, a prominent PIJ member arrested on July 15, who is also the uncle of 17-year-old Majdi al-Ararawi, one of the 13 button men killed by the IDF in the Jenin operation in early July.
Another video circulating on social media shows a group of gunnies marching through the Jenin refugee camp, chanting "Abu Mazen get out, no to the Paleostinian Authority, no to the army!" Abu Mazen is Mahmoud Abbas’s nom de guerre.
The PA is increasingly seen by some Paleostinians as collaborating with Israel at the expense of fighting for their rights. At a mass funeral held for some of the button men killed in the IDF operation in early July, big shots of the PA’s Fatah party were met with heckling and shouting from the angry crowd.
Abbas’s deputy Mahmoud al-Aloul, the head of Fatah’s Central Committee Azzam al-Ahmad, and other senior Fatah leaders were driven out of that event, with participants shouting "Get out!" as they raged against Fatah’s alleged neglect of the "resistance" against Israel.
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