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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Fearing PA collapse, Israel steps up West Bank attacks</h1>
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<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-author"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara Nassar</a></span> -
<span class="gmail-field gmail-field-publication-date"><span class="gmail-date-display-single">8 September 2022</span></span> </p>
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<span><img src="https://electronicintifada.net/sites/default/files/styles/original_800w/public/2022-09/220908_-_qabatiya.jpg?itok=qFUH_-jJ×tamp=1662642918" alt="Men carry a body on a stretcher in a crowd that includes some with rifles" title="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;" width="392" height="261"></span><p>The
body of 19-year-old Taher Zakarneh is carried by mourners during his
funeral in Qabatiya village near the northern West Bank City of Jenin on
5 September.</p><small>
<span>APA images</span></small><p>Six Palestinians
have been killed since the beginning of September, as Israeli
occupation forces step up their attacks in the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>The latest deaths come amid fears in Tel Aviv that the Palestinian Authority is failing in its task of <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/how-palestinian-authority-helps-protect-israeli-settlers">protecting Israel and its settlers</a>.</p>
<p>Israel is looking for ways to prop up the PA, which it views as a <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/palestinian-authority-forces-are-israels-foot-soldiers">proxy force</a> controlling Palestinians on its behalf.</p>
<p>In the early hours of Thursday, an Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in Beitin village, near Ramallah.</p>
<p>The Israeli army <a href="https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1567643826046615552">accused</a>
Haitham Hani Mubarak of attacking a soldier with a hammer and injuring
him in the face. Soldiers took Mubarak’s body after killing him.</p>
<p>Mubarak was a high school student, <a href="https://twitter.com/asranews/status/1567797754184830976">according</a> to the head of the PA’s prisoner affairs commission Amin Shoman. Local media circulated his picture following his killing.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تغطية صحفية: "ارتقاء
الشاب هيثم هاني مبارك من قرية أبو فلاح شرق رام الله، بعد إصابته برصاص
الاحتلال على مدخل قرية بيتين، فجر اليوم".<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#فلسطين</a> <a href="https://t.co/KsrFOfpnR1">pic.twitter.com/KsrFOfpnR1</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1567792420355559425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday morning, Israeli forces <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mohps/posts/pfbid02MU1pEQgRB26c6oXF8Bq32yfsyem4x2MCv8sj3cDhbJ7GkbS2Enh8gRUhYU1sy5bql">fatally shot</a> Younis Ghassan Tayeh with a bullet to the chest in the al-Faraa refugee camp near Tubas.
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<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Israeli occupation forces killed 21 year old Younis Al-Tayeh during a raid of Al-Far'a camp in Tubas this morning <a href="https://t.co/To8K1CR8Cr">pic.twitter.com/To8K1CR8Cr</a></p>— Jalal (@JalalAK_jojo) <a href="https://twitter.com/JalalAK_jojo/status/1567379541554855936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In <a href="https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1567386649591422982">graphic footage</a> circulated by local media, Palestinians are seen carrying the 21-year-old on a stretcher as he bleeds.
<p>The day before, Israeli occupation forces <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-09-06/ty-article/.premium/palestinian-killed-while-live-streaming-on-tiktok-during-israeli-armys-demolition/00000183-1297-d5cb-adb3-33dfc6c40000">fatally shot</a> another Palestinian man who was livestreaming video of their raid in the city of Jenin on the social media app TikTok.</p>
<p>Around 15,000 people were watching Muhammad Sabaaneh’s livestream during which Israeli forces shot him.</p>
<p>Sabaaneh was filming the revenge demolition of a house owned by the family of <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/raed-hazem">Raed Hazem</a>, a Palestinian from Jenin refugee camp who shot and killed three Israelis last April.</p>
<p>Israeli forces had killed Hazem hours after the attack.</p>
<p>Such <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/punitive-home-demolitions">punitive home demolitions</a>
– which Israel carries out against the families of Palestinians it says
carried out attacks on Israelis, but never against Jews who attack
Palestinians – are a form of <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/collective-punishment">collective punishment</a> forbidden under international law.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1566940225913380865">recording</a> of the stream apparently after Sabaaneh was shot, the camera’s view is obscured but sounds can still be heard.</p>
<p>Sabaaneh’s picture was circulated by local media following his killing:
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">مصادر صحفية: "الشـ....ـهيد محمد موسى سباعنة الذي ارتقى بعد إصابته برصا..ص جيش الاحتلا...ل خلال اقتحام <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#جنين</a>". <a href="https://t.co/VnV5XrfLnX">pic.twitter.com/VnV5XrfLnX</a></p>— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalinfoAr/status/1566937731497852931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On 5 September, Israeli occupation forces killed 19-year-old Taher Zakarneh in Qabatiya village near Jenin.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تغطية صحفية| وزارة الصحة: "ارتقاء الشاب طاهر محمد زكــارنة بعد إصابته برصاص الاحتلال في قباطية بجنين". <a href="https://t.co/shP7nZQdJq">pic.twitter.com/shP7nZQdJq</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1566662175694938112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Zakarneh’s father said soldiers opened fire on his son’s legs then at
his head while he was sitting in a military jeep with the back door
open.
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1566709914420105217">According</a> to his father, Zakarneh had been imprisoned for eight months by Israel and released a little over a year ago.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Samer Mahmoud Khalid <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1565158045008764929">died</a> after being shot in the neck during an Israeli raid in Balata refugee camp near Nablus on 1 September.</p>
<p>Israeli authorities <a href="https://twitter.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1565246214936862720">claimed</a>
Khaled was killed by Palestinian gunfire and circulated a video of
Palestinian militants firing their weapons into the air as supposed
evidence.</p>
<p>This is <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/al-jazeeras-iconic-voice-palestine-killed-during-israeli-raid">almost identical</a> to how Israel first initially <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-refuses-probe-soldiers-who-killed-shireen-abu-akleh">tried to explain away</a> the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh in May. Israel this week finally <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/shireen-abu-aklehs-family-rejects-latest-israeli-cover">admitted</a> that one of its soldiers most likely killed the Al Jazeera journalist.</p>
<p>Given the Israeli army’s <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hasbara">record</a> of <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-fakes-another-video-hamas-rockets-next-gaza-homes">lying</a> and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-codifies-shoot-kill-policy-against-palestinians">shooting-to-kill</a> Palestinians, its claims can never be taken at face value.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority security forces reportedly fired stun grenades
at Samer Khaled’s funeral procession. Palestinians protested the PA
crackdown by setting tires ablaze at the Ein refugee camp in Nablus and
blocked the entrance to the camp.
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">مصادر محلية:
"احتجاجات وإشعال للإطارات المطاطية في مخيم العين بنابلس، احتجاجًا على
إطلاق الأجهزة الأمنية الفلسطينية قنابل الغاز صوب مسيرة تشييع الشــًهيد
سامر خالد". <a href="https://t.co/eBydMcbots">pic.twitter.com/eBydMcbots</a></p>— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1565280181765509122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p dir="rtl" lang="ar">شبان يغلقون مدخل مخيم العين في نابلس، احتجاجًا على إطلاق قوات السلطة لقنابل الغاز خلال مسيرة تشييع الشهيد سامر خالد. <a href="https://t.co/O1JOFXueg9">pic.twitter.com/O1JOFXueg9</a></p>— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShehabAgency/status/1565278196391677952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A 26-year-old Palestinian man, Yazan Afaneh, was also killed on the same
day in al-Bireh, a town near Ramallah, reportedly by Israeli fire.
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<blockquote>— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShehabAgency/status/1565311651376762881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<h2>Israel aims to prop up PA</h2>
<p>Israeli occupation forces have intensified their lethal raids across
the West Bank in recent months, particularly around Jenin and Nablus in
the north, amid a resurgence of Palestinian armed resistance.</p>
<p>This comes as Israeli leaders are expressing alarm that the
Palestinian Authority is losing control over the pockets of the West
Bank where Israel allows it to operate.</p>
<p>Jenin remains a center for armed Palestinian resistance to Israeli
military occupation in the West Bank, despite all efforts by Israel and
the Palestinian Authority to suppress it.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the Jenin brigade of the Islamic Jihad resistance group <a href="https://t.me/sarayajnein/459">released a video</a> it said showed a resistance fighter blowing up an Israeli military vehicle with a remotely detonated bomb.</p>
<p>“The absence of control on the part of Palestinian security apparatus
in certain parts of Judea and Samaria has created fertile ground for
the growth of terrorism,” Israeli army chief of staff Aviv Kochavi <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-09-07/ty-article/.premium/israel-weighs-measures-to-prop-up-ailing-palestinian-authority/00000183-166a-d6f3-a7ff-feea2b000000">said</a>, using Israel’s pseudo-biblical name for the West Bank.</p>
<p>Israel uses the term “terrorist” to refer to almost any Palestinian armed or unarmed resistance.</p>
<p>“In places like Jenin and Nablus, they have little control on the ground,” Kochavi added.</p>
<p>“The situation on the ground is worse than it seems,” Ronen Bar, the
head of Israel’s domestic spying agency Shin Bet, reportedly told a
visiting State Department official this week.</p>
<p>Biden administration officials are now <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/09/07/us-israel-west-bank-palestinian-authority-crisis">reportedly</a> pressuring Israel “to take urgent steps to stabilize the Palestinian Authority.”</p>
<p>“Israel is considering stepping up the economic assistance to the PA
that the current government is already providing,” Tel Aviv newspaper <em>Haaretz</em> <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-09-07/ty-article/.premium/israel-weighs-measures-to-prop-up-ailing-palestinian-authority/00000183-166a-d6f3-a7ff-feea2b000000">reported</a>.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority has since its creation in the mid-1990s
maintained close cooperation with Israeli occupation forces under the
banner of “security coordination.”</p>
<p>Israeli politicians love to attack and abuse the Palestinian
Authority and accuse it of supporting “terrorism” – especially during
election campaigns. But the reality is that Israel relies on the PA, and
when it looks like it is teetering, Tel Aviv and Washington always rush
to the rescue.</p> <h3>
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