A Palestinian journalist was shot dead overnight at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, with her family on Sunday accusing the Palestinian Authority’s security forces of killing her while she was with her mother and two small children.

Shatha al-Sabbagh, a journalism student and independent reporter in her early 20s, was killed by a bullet to the head, which her family said was fired by a security forces sniper while there was no fighting going on in the vicinity.

The security forces of the PA, however, blamed local Palestinian terror group fighters, saying she was shot during nighttime clashes at the camp.

PA security forces have been carrying out an operation against terror groups in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, killing and detaining members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, seizing weapons, and neutralizing explosive devices.

The crackdown came after terror........

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