Palestinian security forces reportedly blocked Israeli troops as they attempted to enter the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank on Sunday, and succeeded in forcing them to leave.
A video that went viral on Facebook purported to show Palestinian officers standing in front of Israeli military vehicles attempting to drive into Jenin.
The footage also shows Palestinian officers shouting and cocking their guns, before Israeli soldiers eventually retreated.
'Jenin Jenin': A never-ending story https://t.co/cLXptOc7YK
— Olly (@ReviloGaza) December 11, 2016
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into the case.
The reports represented a rare standoff between Palestinian and Israeli security forces, as the Palestinian Authority (PA) regularly allows Israeli forces to enter PA-controlled areas in the West Bank to conduct daily detention raids and other military operations, in contravention of the Oslo accords.
In recent months, both Palestinian and Israeli-led raids have targeted Jenin in particular. Palestinian factions have repeatedly accused the Fatah-dominated PA of “escalating security collaboration” with Israeli authorities through politically-motivated arrests and “adopting a revolving door policy” funneling Palestinians from PA jails into Israeli prisons.
(Ma’an, PC, Social Media)
About time that they Israelis are forced to stop going onto Palestinian land and harrassing and arresting Palestinians for being Palestinians. How many Palestinians are in prison? why? Stop the genocide of the Palestinians.
I bet this was arranged and staged to prop up Abba$’ falling reputation.