Palestinian Authority blames West Bank violence escalation on Trump’s scheme

The Palestinian Authority has censured the recent spate of “dangerous Zionist escalation against Palestinian people” in West Bank as part of the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's announcement of his so-called deal of the century.

Palestinian Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh, in a statement carried by Palestine’s official Wafa News Agency, blamed Trump’s plan for the aggression, arguing that it has “created this atmosphere of escalation and tension by trying to impose fake facts on the ground, which we have repeatedly warned against.”

He added, “We have stressed that any deal that does not meet the rights of our people and does not aim to make a just and comprehensive peace will inevitably lead to the escalation that we are currently witnessing.”

Abu Rudeineh then warned against the Israeli regime’s systematic Israeli regime aggressions, emphasizing that “the Palestinian people and their leadership will stand strong against all these conspiracies, and they will foil them just as they did in the past.”

The statement came after Zionist military forces fatally shot a young Palestinian man on allegations of opening fire at a group of soldiers, who were stationed near the Parsa Junction outside the illegal Dolev settlement, northwest of Ramallah, on Thursday afternoon.

Earlier, a Palestinian Authority police officer, identified as 25-year-old Staff Sergeant Tareq Badwan, succumbed to his wounds after he was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Video footage shared by Palestinians on social media apparently shows the moment Badwan was hit by Israeli fire. The officer was seemingly standing in uniform inside a police station in Jenin at the time, and did not appear to be a threat to the Israeli soldiers operating in the city.

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