12/15/2024–|Last updated: 12/15/202410:59 PM (Mecca time)
Axios said that the military operation launched by the Palestinian Authority’s security forces in Jenin is decisive for the future of the Authority, and it is a message to the American President-elect. Donald Trump.
The website added that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the leaders of the security services to launch the operation to control Jenin and its camp, but some of them expressed their reservations, which made him threaten those who violated the orders with dismissal.
The sources revealed that Abbas’s aides informed the administration of US President Joe Biden and advisors to President-elect Trump in advance about the Jenin operation, and that US security coordinator Mike Fenzel met with PA security leaders before the operation to review their plans.
The Biden administration also asked Israel to approve American military assistance for the security of the Authority in the West Bank, with the aim of supporting its extensive operation in the West Bank.
The American ambassador and security coordinator asked Israel to agree to hand over equipment and ammunition to the authority, a request that Israel has not responded to yet, according to a statement by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, who is close to the Americans, to the Hebrew “Wala” website.
While the Palestinian Authority says that what is happening in Jenin is a security campaign targeting outlaws, Axios quoted Palestinian officials as saying that the primary motive of the Jenin operation is to send a message to Trump that the Authority is a reliable partner.
The official spokesman for the Palestinian security forces, Anwar Rajab, told Al Jazeera that “those in Jenin are not resistance,” indicating that what happened in Gaza will not happen in the West Bank and the Authority will prevent that.
Axios, citing Palestinian and American officials, added that the operation was also motivated by an attempt to prevent the repetition of the Syrian model in the West Bank, because Abbas and his team were concerned that what happened in Aleppo and Damascus might inspire Palestinian Islamic groups.
Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia also support the Jenin operation because they do not want Islamists to control power, according to Axios, citing the Palestinian official.
On the other hand, the spokesman for the Jenin Brigade of the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement – said that the Palestinian security services want Jenin and its camp in the northern occupied West Bank without resistance weapons.
The spokesman for the Jenin Brigade stressed – in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera – that “the fighters’ compass is clear and it is against the occupation only,” and that they have adopted resistance from the entire West Bank.
For his part, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mardawi told Al Jazeera, “The authority has been trying for three decades to throw ashes in the eyes of the Palestinian people, and its measures are outside the law and inconsistent with the resistance,” noting that “the intifada and resistance brought power to the authority, and what it is doing now aims to maintain influence, not defense.” About the case.”
Clashes broke out in the Jenin camp yesterday, Saturday, after the Authority’s security services carried out what it called the “Protect the Homeland” operation, and resulted in the killing of the leader of the Jenin Brigade, Yazid Ja’aysa, who was being pursued by the Israeli occupation, and the killing of several civilians by bullets from the Authority’s security personnel.