[News] PA Security Forces Attack Khader Adnan Commemoration March in Jenin

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PA Security Forces Attack Khader Adnan Commemoration March in Jenin
May 3, 2023
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Marches were organized throughout the occupied West bank to commemorate
Khader Adnan. (Photo: via WAFA)

Palestinian Authority security forces on Tuesday attacked mourners marking
the death of Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan in Jenin, The New Arab
reported.

Local sources told The New Arab’s English-language sister site Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed that PA security forces used batons, stun grenades, and tear gas
to quell the march, which came hours after Adnan died at an Israeli
detention facility.

The march started at the Jenin refugee camp moving toward the town center
after prayers were held for Adnan, a leading figure in Islamic Jihad, the
sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. Members of local armed resistance groups
took part in the commemoration.

Armed men fired at the PA security services’ headquarters after the protest
was attacked. PA security forces fired back and armed clashes ensued, the
sources said.

The Jenin Brigade – affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of
the Islamic Jihad movement – condemned the PA security forces for attacking
marchers.

“For whose benefit is the march of Khader Adnan attacked?” the brigade
asked in a statement.

“If you do not want to resist the occupier [Israel], and if your armored
vehicles, rifles, and sniper courses are not for the occupation, then leave
us with the occupier and do not help them against us,” they said.

Khader Adnan, 45, died on Tuesday on day 87 of a hunger strike in an
Israeli prison.

*(The New Arab, PC)*


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