Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party issued a rare statement on Saturday vowing not to “allow Hamas, which sacrificed the interests of the Palestinian people for Iran and caused destruction in the Gaza Strip, to replicate its actions in the West Bank.”
The statement came as Fatah seeks to rally public opinion in support of its ongoing security operation in the Jenin refugee camp targeting Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other armed terror groups that have gradually gained prominence in the northern West Bank.
The statement notably called out not just Hamas — which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, starting an ongoing multifront war with Iranian-backed forces — but also Tehran itself, which Fatah accused of bankrolling the various armed groups throughout the West Bank, particularly the so-called Jenin Brigade.
Fatah tore into Hamas’s decision to launch the October 7 onslaught, when thousands of terrorists invaded southern Israel from Gaza, killing some 1,200 people and........