{"id":575197,"date":"2021-06-28T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575197"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:50:34","slug":"palestinian-authority-deploys-forces-during-protest-over-killing-of-abbas-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palestinian-authority-deploys-forces-during-protest-over-killing-of-abbas-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Authority Deploys Forces During Protest Over Killing of Abbas Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpalestinian-authority-deploys-forces-during-protest-over-killing-of-abbas-critic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-26T181138Z_1_LYNXNPEH5P084_RTROPTP_4_PALESTINIANS-POLITICS-CRITIC-scaled-e1624887652675.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>By Ali Sawafta, Nidal al-Mughrabi<\/p>\n<p>RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) \u2013 The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday deployed security forces to confront protesters who took to the streets of Ramallah in the West Bank after one of President Mahmoud<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Abbas<\/span>\u2018s biggest<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0critic<\/span>s died in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Nizar Banat had been arrested by PA forces who broke into a relative&#8217;s house where he was staying in the early hours of Thursday and hit him repeatedly with a metal rod before arresting him, according to Banat&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Banat&#8217;s death has sparked three days of protests in the occupied West Bank and calls from the international community for an inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Palestinian security officers lined the streets and blocked protestors by hitting them with their fists and with clubs, Reuters video showed.<\/p>\n<p>The officers, some wearing riot gear, others in plain clothes, also fired tear gas and attacked journalists, according to witnesses. There were no official figures on how many people were arrested or injured.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the PA security services, Talal Dweikat, said the committee investigating Banat\u2019s death had begun its work and urged people to wait for the results. He did not comment on Saturday&#8217;s violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian journalists&#8217; union condemned attacks by security forces against journalists covering the protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The targeting of journalists by security men is a new, grave development in the onslaught on freedom of expression and the media,&#8221; the union said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Banat, 43, was a social activist who had accused<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Abbas<\/span>\u2018s PA of corruption, including over a short-lived COVID-19 vaccine exchange with Israel this month and<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Abbas<\/span>\u2018s postponement of a long-delayed election in May.<\/p>\n<p>Banat had registered as a parliamentary candidate for that contest.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd marched through streets waving Palestinian flags and pictures of Banat and calling for an end to<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Abbas<\/span>\u2018s 16-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want a total political reform that will truly reflect the interests of the people,&#8221; said protester Esmat Mansour.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups say<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Abbas\u00a0<\/span>regularly arrests<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0critic<\/span>s. A Human Rights Watch official said Banat&#8217;s arrest was &#8220;no anomaly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Abbas\u00a0<\/span>and the PA, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, reject accusations they are corrupt and that they arrest people for their political views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali Sawafta, Nidal al-Mughrabi RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) \u2013 The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday deployed security forces to confront protesters who took to the streets of Ramallah in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281492,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-26T181138Z_1_LYNXNPEH5P084_RTROPTP_4_PALESTINIANS-POLITICS-CRITIC-scaled-e1624887652675.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Palestinian Authority Deploys Forces During Protest Over Killing of Abbas Critic","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-26T181138Z_1_LYNXNPEH5P084_RTROPTP_4_PALESTINIANS-POLITICS-CRITIC-scaled-e1624887652675.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Palestinian Authority Deploys Forces During Protest Over Killing of Abbas Critic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}