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2022-05-20T09:45:54.986Z


The recent terrorist attacks and the rising status of the Zabeidi family left no room for doubt: the Jenin refugee camp returned to the forefront and became a hotbed for the export of murderous terrorists. What is really going on behind the scenes of the Palestinian Authority and how did Jenin become a stronghold of Hamas?


Jenin's secrets: Behind the scenes of the terrorist capital

The recent terrorist attacks and the rising status of the Zabeidi family left no room for doubt: the Jenin refugee camp returned to the forefront and became a hotbed for the export of murderous terrorists.

What is really going on behind the scenes of the Palestinian Authority and how did Jenin become a stronghold of Hamas?

Amir Bohbot

20/05/2022

Friday, 20 May 2022, 08:05 Updated: 12:14

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Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen decided in January this year that he was tired of the governance problems in the Jenin refugee camp. Violently, Muhammad



Zabeidi

, son of Zakaria Zabeidi, who previously served as commander of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the Jenin refugee camp and is now considered a symbol of violent resistance against Israel in Palestinian society.

With five other security prisoners, and was captured after five days of hunting in the area of ​​Kfar Tavor. His son was arrested in shock by Fatah.

According to the security forces, Muhammad is considered one of the "rising stars of the camp", the security forces also said that the son "deals with many areas, most of which lead to unrest and violence in the camp,



Daoud, Zachariah's younger brother, decided not to wait for the nature of the arrest to be clarified by the PA, concentrated more than a hundred gunmen who stood in front of the Muqata (governor's house) in Jenin and opened incendiary fire on the building, hurling explosives and grenades.

Immediately afterwards, "Disappeared Hand" took care to spread on social media the shooting at the Muqata to increase the pressure and intensify the dimension of the governor's humiliation.

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A procession commemorating the death of Daoud Zabeidi, the brother of Zakaria Zabeidi (Photo: Walla !, according to section 27A of the social networks)

The audacity of the Zabeidi family's loyalists, who demanded the immediate release of Muhammad, surprised many, including in the IDF. To convey a message that there is no Palestinian above the law who can violate the order without paying a price, but the result was quite the opposite and gave a boost to the camp militants.

But it was just a trailer.



Last week, the Golani patrol and a Golani patrol went on a wanted Palestinian arrest operation in Wadi Brookin on the border of the Jenin refugee camp.

One accurate bullet fired by a YMCA fighter severely wounded Daoud. To transfer the "bargaining card" to Rambam Hospital in Haifa, but a day later he died of his wounds.



The defense establishment decided to hold his body until further notice and re-aroused the entire refugee camp in Jenin.

About 500 masked men marched on Sunday from the camp to one of the main deputies in Jenin to protest, shoot in the air, threaten terrorist attacks and demand the return of the body for burial in Jenin.

Beyond the fact that the death of Daoud Zabeidi united all the refugee camp organizations: operatives of al-Aqsa Brigades, Tanzim, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the scope of weapons and ammunition was clearer than anything because the Jenin refugee camp raised its head and for the first time in 20 years.

Now the chute is at a new boiling point, only this time it is loaded with guns, pistols, lots of ammunition and an atmosphere that the majority is allowed.



The video of the hundreds of gunmen ran between the groups of company commanders and fighters in the Menashe Brigade.

"This explains everything that has been happening in the area in recent months," said one of the brigadiers in the brigade.

They used to shoot in the air, today they shoot at the jeeps in order to kill.

There is no such thing as 'peripheral' firing, they shoot to kill. "

Noam Raz, killed in an exchange of gunfire in Jenin (Photo: courtesy of the family)

A former senior IDF officer who previously served in the Menashe sector said this week that the security problem that developed in the Jenin sub-district, from a Palestinian and Israeli point of view, is much more serious than the refugee camp's problem. Emphasis is placed on the villages of Ya'bad and Jabba, where Palestinians look at the weakness of the Palestinian security forces and feel that the atmosphere allows them to act illegally. , But this time came from the village of Romana known as particularly quiet.



Although the seeds for the murderous terrorist cell "The Black Panther" of Fatah at the beginning of the first intifada grew from the village of Romana, mainly from the Safihat family, the waves of terror have since subsided dramatically and it has hardly risen in the GSS radar. About 6,000 Palestinians live in the village Most of them work in three areas: security forces or Palestinian Authority offices, businessmen and merchants, or construction workers



. The Elad terrorists arrived at the home of one of the terrorists and talked to his father. It turns out that the terrorist is the only son of parents who were excited when he was one year old. Such a murderous father, the father said that his son surfed the ticking net and saw the events of the Temple Mount,Talk to him about the subject and critique.


"Dad. Explain to me. If this is our mosque, why are we being taken out of there and let the Jews in there to do dances and all sorts of other things?" The terrorist asked his father who tried to calm him down. Border guards aggressively arrest a religious woman and take off her head covering and veil.



The father claims that the next day he ate lunch with his son, and did not notice anything unusual in his behavior.

At the end of the meal he went to work and updated his father at every step of the phone calls when he crossed Rantis and a friend of his employer.

"Everything's fine Dad," he said in the last phone call.

In retrospect, it turned out that he went to Ramallah, bought knives, and later went to Elad as he crossed the seam line.

An investigation into the terrorist from the village of Romana in the Jenin district connected as the second thread to further investigations carried out in recent months, in which the families of the terrorists repeated the insight that they were convinced, in the extreme incitement, that "Jews intended to slaughter sheep on the Temple Mount. .

They added that they had heard that "Israelis are talking about starting to pray there regularly and a kind of change in the status quo."

The defense establishment has made many efforts to deal with the wild incitement on the Palestinian street over an imaginary takeover of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

"We will bring the campaign to Israel": Hamas' takeover of Jenin

An in-depth examination of the wild incitement on the networks led to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Security sources said that the painful blows inflicted on Hamas in the Gaza Strip in Operation Wall Guard caused the organization's leader Yahya Sinwar to recalculate a route regarding the confrontation with Israel.

"He did not believe that following the launch of the rockets towards Jerusalem, the IDF would launch a significant and difficult operation against him, which would wreak havoc on the organization's infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip and kill dozens of activists.

It was a ringing slap in the face for January, "a security source explained.



As soon as Sinwar realized that he was paying for responses from the Gaza Strip, a source explained, he decided that he would "bring the campaign to Israel so as not to pay a price in Gaza."

The equation became clear very quickly, halting terrorism from Gaza but directing and financing terrorism from Judea and Samaria towards Israel.

Sinwar and his men decided to devote thought to the most explosive place with the potential to undermine security stability in the region without the IDF charging a price from them. The road to the Jenin refugee camp was short. Islamic Jihad operatives received clear messages and in principle They have funds, advice, guidance and additional resources.

"Once they used to shoot in the air, today they shoot at the jeeps in order to kill" (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The Jenin refugee camp, which stretches over 11.5 square kilometers, is home to 11,000 Palestinians.

Several forces fought on the same cell.

Daoud on behalf of the Zabeidi family, Shami Shami, a member of the National Council and a member of Fatah's revolutionary campaign for Shaab, but connected to all sections of the population with an emphasis on the younger generation, and Muhammad Dahlan, hated by Abu Mazen. This is how Mahmoud Assadi, the head of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, became a Hamas subcontractor.



The changes were quick when the big money came.

More shooting attacks and more friction with IDF fighters. Fatah flags in the camp were pushed aside and Hamas flags could be seen on the arches at the entrance to the camp that survived Operation Defensive Shield.

Although Abu Khalil, the Palestinian precinct security commander in Jenin, openly boasted that he had recently closed hundreds of accounts on other social networks in which there was wild incitement and a call for terrorism to violence, it is clear to everyone that this is a drop in the ocean. Which erupted in Jenin.



Despite the Palestinian Authority's effort to cut off cooperation between jihad and Hamas, Twitter accounts in Gaza still show reports of any entry of armored vehicles through the Jalama crossing into Jenin.

The IDF estimates that Hamas has observers near the crossing and any suspicious movement is reported and through its headquarters in Gaza they wake up the camp in Jenin through tweets and posts.

Daoud Zabeidi, brother of Zakaria Zabeidi, who was killed in an exchange of fire (Photo: official website, social networks)

This is further evidence of the change that has taken place in the Jenin refugee camp, which was once a symbol of resistance against Israel.

But it is impossible to describe the moods in the camp without also describing the process that the Zabeidi family, who used to own in the camp, went through.

In 2012, Zakaria accepted the defense establishment's offer to leave the camp and move to Ramallah.

The PA offered him a respectable job and he calmed down, boarded the Judenay Getz, left the camp and was picked up by the Palestinian security forces in a fancy vehicle on the way from Allah.

The respectable agreement between the parties lasted until 2018, during which he quarreled with PA Authority official Jibril Rajoub.



In keeping with the tradition of Fatah conflicts and factions, and astonishingly, Zabeidi set out to carry out shooting attacks on buses and patrols in the Beit El area in order to drag the army into widespread action in the area and humiliate the Palestinian Authority. He returned to his days as wanted and was finally arrested in 2019 by the IDF and the GSS.



Zabeidi's strength in the camp gradually deteriorated but what helped him keep his head above water was the appointment of the family to head the Jenin Joint Services Committee.

The last blow to the family was landed by the PA through the election of Hamed Saber in March this year.

It was a complete surprise to all involved.

The Zbeidi family lowered their heads.

"Their word. Their legitimacy in the camp has dropped significantly," officials familiar with the camp's moods explained, adding, "Suddenly Daoud Zabeidi has also disappeared. He no longer has the back he once had. "M, he did it to save his and his family's honor.

His message was simple.

'look at me.

"I arrived first before everyone else to shoot at the IDF." He did not send nephews or cousins, but arrived himself. "



Following the announcement of Daoud Zabeidi's death at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, a flood of phone calls began, including in the defense establishment, asking the body to return his body for burial. Refugees. His status may have eroded but not been lost, and political influence must still be attributed to him in Palestinian society.

IDF forces in Jenin (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

In the same breath, defense officials emphasize that the recent events clarify part of the picture depicting what is happening at the Jenin terrorist center, and that the fact that in the last two years the IDF has not done much to arrest wanted persons in Jenin, because of the corona and fear of endangering soldiers "Red" in terms of morbidity. The Palestinian security forces explicitly instructed Abu Mazen to enforce isolations to prevent the spread of corona and not really to enforce law and order.



The complex reality has accelerated processes, including the understanding that camp residents were not necessarily in a hurry to identify with one terrorist organization or another but as camp residents and motivators and economic partners such as drug trafficking, weapons, vehicle theft and valuable equipment and more.

The younger generation felt in the camp that it was above the law and developed an extreme alienation towards the symbols of the authority.

Nationalism also declined.

Especially among Palestinians who have lost their jobs in the shadow of the corona in the last two years or their permits to work in Israel because of their proximity to terrorists who carried out terrorist attacks.



The task of lowering the level of terrorism is at the door of Central Command Commander Yehuda Fox and the commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Avi Ballot, who wisely promotes the salami system in everything related to the treatment of the Jenin sub-district. , And does not carry out large-scale checks on Israel all over the world and will harm the IDF's legitimacy and freedom of action.

Pictures of hundreds of militants this week indicate that the army has "

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