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Hamas was the product of Palestinian youth efforts in the 1980s, and those young men have grown up and become today’s leaders. Now that Hamas has been ruling the Gaza Strip since 2006, is the role of youth in the movement confined to fighting and media roles, and restricted from leadership? Why is there no leader in Hamas under 40? The movement’s youngest leader is 40-year-old Mushir al-Masri, a Palestinian Legislative Council member from the Change and Reform Bloc.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/growing-criticism-within-hamas-youth-members.html#

Blindfolded and beaten: Palestinians decry PA torture

Had he not been blindfolded and shackled to a chair in a Palestinian Authority (PA) prison cell, Awni Mazen al-Shakhshir might have spent the first evening of Ramadan last year breaking the day's fast with his family in Nablus.

Shakhshir said that throughout the first week of his 41-day detention, PA interrogators in Bethlehem forced him into stress positions, punched and kicked him, and deprived him of sleep.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/blindfolded-beaten-palestinians-decry-pa-torture-160412053550253.html

PA forces mistreat 5 Palestinians in custody, says rights group

The Palestinian Authority has extended the detention of five young Palestinians, prisoners’ rights organization Addameer reported Monday, after their arrests sparked criticism of the Palestinian government’s security coordination with Israel.

The Palestinian magistrate’s court extended the detention of Basil Mahmoud al-Aaraj, 33, Muhammad Abdullah Harb, 23, Haytham al-Sayyaj, 19, Muhammad al-Salamin, 19, and Ali Dar al-Sheikh, 22, for further interrogation, Addameer said, adding that the five prisoners had been subjected to ill-treatment.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771103

Hamas slams detention of 3 Palestinians by PA as 'collaboration' with Israel
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771069

Armed clashes erupt as PA forces raid Nablus, 13 wounded

Armed clashes broke out Tuesday between Palestinian youths and Palestinian Authority security forces whenthey raided the Old City of Nablus, leaving 13 wounded.

Nablus governor Akram Rujoub told Ma'an that PA security forces were attempting to detain a suspect in a recent murder case when clashes erupted with armed men in and around the Old City.

Seven Palestinian youths and five members of the PA security forces were reportedly injured during the clashes, most in moderate condition.

Rajoub identified the fugitive suspect as Hani Halaweh, who PA security forces believe may have been involved in the murder of Ashraf al-Beia two months ago.

Hani Halaweh, a leader in Fatah's military wing, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, slammed the PA for the carrying out the raid.

"What happened today was a raid on houses of martyrs, prisoners, and resistance fighters in the Old City, which we will not allow," Halaweh said.

"We look to the Palestinian Authority as a Palestinian national project that must be protected and defended, but there are people in the PA who still chase resistance fighters when they should be chasing spies and drug dealers," Halaweh added.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770894

Armed assailants open fire at teacher's vehicle in Qalqiliya

Unidentified armed men opened fire at the vehicle of the head of the teachers’ movement late on Wednesday in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya.

Jamal al-Qaddumi told Ma'an that men riding motorcycles stopped in front of his building in the city of Qalqiliya and fired 14 bullets at his parked vehicle before fleeing the scene.

Al-Qaddumi only reported material damage to his car. He added that security services arrived at the scene and opened an investigation into the incident.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771031

Cut off from PA aid, relatives of slain in Gaza face destitution

The 45-year-old lost two of her children when fighter jets shelled her home in the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah during Israel’s assault in the summer of 2014.

Now she attends a regular sit-in demonstration outside a branch of the Palestinian Authority office responsible for the welfare of the families of the dead and wounded. Relatives of the martyrs, are they are known, gather weekly in Gaza City to protest the decision to suspend the payment of allowances to families of the those slain by Israel in 2014.

“Officials tend to say that it is a great honor for them to serve the families of martyrs. But we have become beggars due to these offensive practices,” al-Qayid told The Electronic Intifada.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/cut-pa-aid-relatives-slain-gaza-face-destitution/15831

PLO cancels funds to DFLP faction, a day after targeting PFLP

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) said Tuesday the PLO had canceled the faction's funding,a day after it halted funding to the PFLP allegedly for criticizing President Mahmoud Abbas.

Sources in the DFLP, who spoke on condition of anonymity, condemned the decision, saying it was also due to the factions' critical stance towards the current governance in Palestine.

On Monday, Abbas ordered the cancellation of funds allocated to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), another left-wing faction member to the PLO.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771099

Thousands rally against PA approval of controversial social security law

Thousands of Palestinians on Tuesday demonstrated outside of a government building in the occupied West Bank hub of Ramallah against the Palestinian Authority’s approval of a law many believe fails to provide adequate protection for workers.

Social Security Act No. 6 was ratified by PA Cabinet members in February and approved by President Mahmoud Abbas the following month.

The law has since brought a downpour of criticism from critics who say it disadvantages those with disabilities, retirees, and private sector workers.

The organizers of Tuesday’s rally demanded that the new law be suspended until discussions were held on a national level, in order to address concerns that the law acts as a detriment to employee savings without guaranteeing security from the state.

Organizers said that under the new social security system, “expected retirement income won’t be enough to enable retired employees and workers to live in dignity.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771207