PFLP condemns PA for arresting resistance fighters in occupied West Bank

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has condemned the Palestinian Authority for arresting resistance fighters, and even shooting them, in an “approach that is nationally and popularly rejected, and serves the Israeli occupation regime and its objectives.”

The PFLP stressed on Wednesday that shootings and arrests, which have escalated in Jenin and other cities and refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank, reflect a “dangerous deviance” in the behaviour of the PA and its security services.

“The responsibility for the unfortunate events witnessed in the city of Jenin, the most dangerous of which is the deliberate shooting of a resistance fighter, fall on the shoulders of the PA’s leadership and its security services,” said the PFLP.

It stressed that Palestinian weapons must be “pointed exclusively” at the Zionist enemy, and that the weapons of resistance are “a red line that must not be crossed.”

The movement explained that this development required the Palestinian forces, factions and national and influential figures to intervene urgently in order to contain these unfortunate events so that they do not get out of control. This is essential, it added, in light of the critical circumstances and the genocide of the Palestinian people, as well as the acceleration of the occupation regime’s Judaisation and annexation operations in the West Bank.

It called for a unified national position that puts pressure on the PA leadership to stop this “destructive” approach immediately and engage in serious national efforts to “support the resistance and confront the occupation regime.”

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