Israeli forces have killed a member of the Palestinian security services in the occupied West Bank whom they accused of being militant.

Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces killed a father and his son in Jenin on Friday amid an ongoing crackdown on anti- Israel resistance groups in the occupied West Bank city. The slain man was identified as Mahmoud al-Jalqamousi. His young son Qasem Mahmoud al-Jalqamousi was also killed, both deaths were reported by local media.

Palestinian Authority forces are clashing with armed groups in the occupied West Bank in a rare crackdown aimed at restoring order in a militant stronghold

The Palestinian Authority has suspended Al Jazeera from broadcasting and operating in the occupied West Bank. It accused the network of broadcasting “inciting materials” and “misleading reports” that “provoke strife and interfere in Palestinian internal affairs,” Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, said Wednesday.

Amid an offensive against Palestinian armed groups in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Authority suspended the broadcasting and activities of the Al-Jazeera channel January 1, accusing it of “incitement to sedition.