Unrest Turns Deadly in West Bank as Palestinian Authority’s Grip Loosens

RAMALLAH, West Financial institution—Palestinian Authority safety forces clashed with armed teams and gangs of younger males who have been hurling stones within the metropolis of Nablus on Tuesday, as unrest intensified within the West Financial institution amid a sequence of Israeli navy raids and arrests of militants.

The early-morning gunbattles left a minimum of one Palestinian lifeless and demonstrated how the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is shedding management of northern elements of the West Financial institution, the place officers say there’s a rising however diffuse motion that’s hostile to each the Israeli occupation and a Palestinian governing physique seen by a lot of its topics as corrupt and ineffective.