In Tulkarem the other day, an innocent Palestinian was killed, whether by the Palestinian Authority’s security force or by an as-yet unidentified terror group is still not known. It happened this way.
In order to make it more difficult and dangerous for the IDF to enter the Tulkarem camp, Palestinian terrorists sowed the roads with IEDs, including those leading to, and just outside, a school. They also erected barriers to slow down Israeli military vehicles. Both the IEDs and the road barriers were a danger to civilians, especially to schoolchildren who had to use those same IED-lined roads to get to school. The Palestinian Authority security services began to locate and remove the IED’s to protect the lives of Palestinian schoolchildren. But those Palestinians responsible for planting the IEDs and the barriers — which terror group they belonged to is still unclear — then fired on members of the PA’s security services who were attempting to pull down the barriers and to clear the roads in the area of IEDs. In the exchange of gunfire, a Palestinian bystander was shot and killed. More on this clash between the PA’s security services and the terrorists in Tulkarem can be found here: “Palestinian killed in rare clash between gunmen and PA security forces,” by Emanuel Fabian, Times of Israel, August 30, 2023:
A Palestinian man was shot dead during rare clashes between gunmen and members of the Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Wednesday.
The clashes were sparked after PA security forces entered Tulkarem to remove barricades set up by gunmen in an adjacent refugee camp, aimed at impeding Israel Defense Force troops who carry out regular arrest raids.
Over the past year, Palestinian terror groups have asserted control of various refugee camps across the West Bank, setting up roadblocks and planting roadside bombs to prevent Israeli forces from entering.
The Reuters news agency reported that the PA said residents had complained that the barricades endangered passersby and a nearby school.
Palestinian media said 25-year-old Abdel Qader Zakdah was fatally shot and several others were wounded during the clashes that ensued in the Tulkarem Camp….
Zakdah appears to have been only an innocent passerby, in the wrong place at the wrong time. No terror group has claimed him, nor have the security services of the PA.
