The Palestinian Authority (PA) asked the United States to approve a four-year $680m plan to boost the training of its special forces and bolster its supply of ammunition and armoured vehicles, an American source and a source close to PA revealed to Middle East Eye.

The request was made in mid-December at a meeting with US security officials at the PA’s Ministry of Interior in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

At the meeting, PA security officials expressed frustration over what they believed was the US’s failure to fulfil its commitments to the authority by replenishing arms supplies and training special forces.

“Authority officials requested in the meeting that their needs for armoured vehicles and ammunition be met urgently in light of the difficulty of the clashes and their inability to resolve the situation in the Jenin camp,” a source told MEE.

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    3 days ago

    The PA is a great tool for Israeli colonialism as it receives a ton of funding from America which does not get counted as funding Israel but “helping Palestine”.

    Even many European nations such as the Netherlands have their armies training the PA to help Israel surpress the Palestinians under the guise of peacekeeping.