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With the army threatening to invade the city, again, Jenin's mayor agreed to remove a memorial to a local Palestinian fighter Amira Hass
Israel once again showed the Palestinians who's the boss. Early on Friday morning an Israel Defense Forces unit raided the outskirts of Jenin and confiscated the stone monument erected two weeks earlier in memory of Khaled Nazzal, a member of the central committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a commander in its military arm.
Nazzal was born in 1948 in the town of Qabatiya in the Jenin district. He was assassinated by unknown assailants in June 1986, at the entrance to the Sheraton Hotel in Athens. "A cowardly execution carried out by the Mossad," was how the DFLP described the act in its various publications.
On June 15 of this year a city square was named after Nazzal, and a monument in his memory was unveiled. The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that in the ceremony, which took place in the Jenin district governor's building, the deputy governor and the deputy mayor also spoke. As befits an auditorium in an official building, the walls are decorated with pictures of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israeli intelligence works fast, and relevant information reached Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On June 21 a news website close to the DFLP reported that the mayor of "the settlement of Maalot" had sent Abbas a letter requesting removal of the monument.
On June 22...