A leadership source in Saraya Al-Quds – Tubas Brigade revealed in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed the threats they received from the traitorous Palestinian Authority Security Forces, indicating a decision to carry out assassinations and shooting at any Brigade member who does not comply with the the PA’s “law.”
For the last two months, the PA has intensively installed security checkpoints across Tubas, matching the pace of the resistance’s escalation against the IOF in the city.
The source said that the PA is trying to eliminate resistance activity, in alignment with “israeli” interests. The PA has reinforced hundreds of personnel and armored vehicles and are stationed across the city, its towns, and camps.
Over the last week, clashes erupted between the PA Forces and resistance fighters in the city, following the PA’s attempted abduction of resistance fighters. The resistance targeted the car of the Director of Operations of the PA Intelligence following an incident, and dozens of young men blocked and are still blocking roads to hinder the Security Forces’ attempts to pursue the resistance fighters.
The PA has tried to abduct members of the Tubas Brigade since its inception on July 17th, 2022 following an IOF raid on Tubas. Despite this, the Tubas Brigade has only grown stronger two years later, especially since Al-Aqsa Flood: the Tubas Brigade carried out 45 significant operations from January to April of this year.
In less than a month, the PA have attempted to arrest prominent wanted fighters three times.
The source described May 6th, when PA Forces saw a vehicle of a Brigade member and chased him before his escape. At that time, the PA seized his vehicle and ammunition. The events escalated into armed clashes, with the PA Forces claiming that if the Brigade had not responded to the incident, they would have returned the ammunition and the vehicle.
On May 31st, the PA abducted the wanted Bakr Al-Abbas and seized his weapon. The Brigade leader stated, “We did not respond to the arrest of Al-Abbas, hoping that they would fulfill their promise to release him, as they claimed in the previous incident, but that did not happen.”
The situation worsened after the PA Security Forces attempted to abduct fighter Ahmed Abu Dawas, following a raid on the house he was thought to be in. Only some ammunition was taken, and the PA Forces set up checkpoints and searched vehicles to find him.
20 fighters in the Tubas Brigade are wanted by both the IOF and PA, highlighting the PA’s work as a contractor for their zionist masters. The source noted how this constrains resistance activities, since evading pursuit by the PA is harder than by the IOF due to the PA’s internal checkpoints in the city and the ability to predict IOF invasions.
This week, the PA seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition and dismantled explosive devices meant to confront the IOF.
The source stated, “The intensity of pursuits increases with the quantity and type of resistance actions against the occupation and decreases with a decline in resistance activities. The current phase sees a variety of methods in targeting occupation forces, including direct shooting, planting explosives, and a new method of rigging vehicles that approach occupation forces.”
Regarding the Tubas Brigade’s message to the PA Security Forces, the source stated, “Our message is clear: stay out of our way with the occupation because the [Palestinian Authority] is not our target. But if someone wants to kill us, we will not welcome them with roses. If there is a raid on a house or a location of a wanted fighter by masked individuals, there won’t be time to identify whether the intruders are special occupation forces or PA Forces, and thus we will respond with gunfire.”
The source ended by affirming that the IOF suffered heavy losses in its last three raids of Tubas, stating that this is just a small sample of what is being prepared, and emphasizing the coordination between all resistance brigades in Tubas, Jenin, and Tulkarem.