TOI reports that Palestinian Authority security forces carried out a raid against Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Sunday night in the town of Jaba, some 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Jenin, according to reports from the terror group.

Five members were reportedly detained, including a commander and a former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed group linked to the PA’s ruling Fatah party.

The arrests seemed to indicate that the PA was continuing its crackdown on the organization, following arrests it carried out during and immediately after the Israeli operation in Jenin two weeks ago.

In a series of statements, the Al-Quds Brigades, the local branch of Islamic Jihad, harshly condemned the PA campaign against its members, calling it a “morally unacceptable crime” and a “real threat to our struggle and the blood of our martyrs.”

The terror group claimed that the PA was doing the work of Israel and that the two entities were “two faces of the same coin,” keeping the Palestinian people under “two occupations.”

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