[News] PA detains, tortures Palestinians in Jenin as Israel continues deadly assault

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 PA detains, tortures Palestinians in Jenin as Israel continues deadly
assault

Ramallah has intensified its operations around the city of Jenin despite an
alleged agreement it reached with the resistance recently

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JAN 24, 2025 -
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Palestinian Authority (PA) troops have been detaining and torturing
resistance fighters in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where a joint
operation carried out by Israel and Ramallah’s forces has been ongoing for
days.

Photos from 24 January circulating on social media showed young
Palestinians in PA custody bruised from being beaten and lying flat on the
ground with their hands bound.

Deputy head of Hamas in the West Bank Abdel Hakim Hanini condemned the PA
on Friday and said these “scenes that offend human dignity will push the
fighters and their families to take revenge on the authority.”

“We would have liked to see the authority’s security forces confronting the
settlers, not torturing our children,” Hanini added.

At least 65 Palestinians have been detained by the PA in Jenin over the
last few days, while dozens of others have been arrested by Israeli forces.

Hundreds have been displaced from Jenin camp by Israeli army forces and the
PA. Thirteen Palestinians have been killed.

Israel launched its large-scale military operation
<https://thecradle.co/articles/over-a-dozen-killed-in-jenin-in-under-48-hours-as-pa-joins-brutal-israeli-operation>
in Jenin on 21 January, coinciding with airstrikes on the city. The
operation has been dubbed “Iron Wall,” and came after a deadly six-week
siege on Jenin’s refugee camp by PA forces – targeting the Quds Brigades of
the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement’s Quds Brigades, as well as
allied elements of Hamas’s Qassam Brigades and other groups.

The PA reportedly withdrew from Jenin last week as part of a deal
<https://thecradle.co/articles/palestinian-authority-resistance-reach-agreement-to-end-jenin-siege>
reached between Ramallah and the resistance. However, it quickly joined the
Israeli operation that started days ago. According to the agreement, PA
forces have been given freedom of movement and operation within Jenin camp.

“After the resistance fighters agreed with the PA to allow its security
forces to enter the camp for a specific period of time, the resistance
fighters decided to withdraw and spread out to different areas of Jenin,
fearing the authority’s treachery and pursuit of them inside the camp, and
also to stop the bloodshed and prevent bloody clashes if the authority
tried to arrest one of the resistance fighters,” sources told *Quds News
Network* (QNN) on Friday.

“The PA security leadership deluded its elements into believing that an
agreement had been reached with the resistance fighters, and sought to
prevent PA elements from leaking information to the resistance. However,
with the start of the military operation by the occupation army, decisions
were made that the PA must monitor the villages and towns of Jenin,
including medical centers, the outskirts of villages, abandoned houses,
mosques, and the homes of liberated prisoners,” they went on to say.

The PA security services have “intensified their operations in the Jenin
countryside,” the sources added.
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