Palestinian security forces suppress protest in occupied West Bank’s Jenin
Palestinian Authority (PA) forces have fired what appears to be tear gas towards protesting crowds in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Demonstrators took to the streets to decry an ongoing siege on the nearby Jenin refugee camp, days after PA forces raided the camp and battled with Jenin Brigades fighters.
PA forces killed a commander named Yazid Ja’ayseh and injured several people.
Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp are a stronghold for armed factions, including the Jenin Brigades, who are seen as a more effective resistance to the Israeli occupation, in contrast with the PA, which coordinates security matters with Israel.
The camp has also seen increasing crackdowns by Israeli forces, which have intensified in scale since October last year.
A member of the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces fires tear gas towards a protest against the PA security operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on December 16, 2024. For more than a week, the northern West Bank city of Jenin has seen intense violence after the PA, which coordinates security matters with Israel, arrested several Palestinian fighters
Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank: Report
The Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, reports that an 18-year-old Palestinian from Nablus’s Askar refugee camp has died of critical wounds he sustained earlier tonight after being shot by Israeli soldiers during an Israeli military incursion.
The news agency said that several Israeli military vehicles stormed two areas east of Nablus, firing live rounds, sound bombs and toxic tear gas canisters.
Family of American-Turkish killed by Israeli forces express frustration after meeting Blinken
The family of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old activist shot and killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli military forces in September, has expressed frustration after meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The US diplomat “was attentive in listening to us and, unfortunately, repeated a lot of the same things that we’ve been hearing for the past 20 years, particularly since Rachel Corrie’s killing, who is also a Washington State resident, like my wife” Eygi’s husband Hamid Ali told reporters after the meeting at the State Department.
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman, was killed in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.
“It’s frustrating to hear the same things again,” Ali said.
The meeting comes as the family continues to urge the Biden administration to launch an independent investigation into her killing, saying that she was killed in a deliberate attack during a peaceful protest.
Ozden Bennet, Eygi’s sister, said the US is still awaiting an Israeli investigation, which she said the family does not find “credible”.
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