The Palestinian Authority flexes….
But for the past two weeks, the militants of Jenin have been locked in a rare, open battle with an internal foe: the Palestinian Authority.
.In Jenin, the authority, which is backed by the West, has launched its largest and most heavily armed operation in its three decades to thwart a growing West Bank insurgency against the Palestinian leadership andIsraeli occupation. It’s trying to prove it can manage security in the limited areas of the West Bank it controls as it seeks to also govern a postwar Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out the authority’s return to Gaza. Key figures in his far-right coalition have pushed to annex part or all of the Palestinian territories. But in the latest round of ceasefire negotiations, Israel has agreed to let the authority take over administration of the Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt for a short period, according to a former Egyptian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.
The authority launched Operation Protect the Homeland this month to retake control of Jenin camp by targeting “outlaws” and those “spreading chaos and anarchy and harming civil peace,” security forces spokesman Anwar Rajab told The Post. “All these actions and policies undermine the work of the PA, and these groups give Israel an excuse to implement its plans in the West Bank.”
The operation’s “achievements” have included arresting more than two dozen wanted militants, wounding others, dismantling dozens of explosives and “advancing on important axes” into the refugee camp….
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Hamas is still hiding in hospital’s which draw IDF bombings….
At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency.
A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, killing eight people including four children over the weekend, the agency said.
It comes as the UN issues a plea for Israel to cease its attacks in the vicinity of a hospital in Gaza’s north.
The Israeli military claimed a Hamas command centre was inside the compound of the Musa bin Nusair school in Gaza City, and has not commented on reports of attacks by the hospital….
Gaza cease-fire details….
The BBC reported that 20 Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons will be released for every female soldier returned to Israel in a potential ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Gaza Strip.
After escalating its attacks against Israel in the past week, the Houthi’s foreign minister threatened to act against any country that supports Israel.
In a visit to an outpost in southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF has “pulled out the snake’s teeth and, if Hezbollah does not withdraw beyond the Litani and tries to violate the ceasefire, we will crush its head.”….
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