Israeli Military Operation in Jenin: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Visits for Reconstruction Progress

2023-07-12 12:26:13

after Israeli military operation Last week’s wide, draw Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Wed to Embryo On the first visit to the city and its camp in more than ten years.

The Israeli operation, which caused great damage to the camp’s buildings, roads and infrastructure, lasted 48 hours.

And the spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, announced that Abbas is visiting the city of Jenin and the camp “to see the progress of its reconstruction process” after the Israeli operation.

Anger in the camp

Abbas’s visit to the camp, which houses 18,000 people, comes after protesters from the camp expressed their anger during the funeral of those killed in the military operation.

The Palestinian president rarely leaves his residence in Ramallah to make internal visits.

The angry mourners pushed senior officials in Abbas’s Fatah movement to leave the camp, including the movement’s senior deputy chairman Mahmoud al-Aloul, in a controversial move that Fatah accused the Islamist Hamas movement of being behind it.

Abbas went to Jenin on board a Jordanian helicopter that took off from the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Ramallah, according to a source in his office.

In the aftermath of the Israeli operation against the camp, the Palestinian Authority announced that it had cut off all contacts with the Israeli side. This means that Abbas’s visit to Jenin was not subject to security coordination between the two sides.

A Palestinian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Abbas’s visit “will be complicated in terms of security.” The official did not confirm whether or not there was security coordination with Israel.

According to the Deputy Governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu Al-Rub, the Palestinian President will meet during the visit, which “means a lot to the residents of the region,” as he put it, with several parties in the camp and the city. And Fatah announced that Abbas would meet the residents of the camp in the main square there.

Jenin camp was established in 1953 to house Palestinians who were expelled or fled from their homes during the Palestinian “Nakba” and the establishment of Israel in 1948.