Florence Morning News · 24 September 2022
CP-2022-038
Palestinian strife highlights lost hopes of armed youths
By Sam McNeil, Associated Press, Nablus, West Bank
Transcribed from the clipping
“NABLUS, West Bank — Palestinian security forces arrested a militant in Nablus this week, setting off clashes with young gunmen who have formed a new armed group outside the control of any faction… The militant group, named the Den of Lions, said in a letter to The Associated Press: ‘We will not abandon our brother… who is wanted by the occupation forces and is currently kidnapped.’… Ghassan Khatib, a political scientist at Birzeit University, said young Palestinians have lost faith in their leadership… Tahani Mustafa, a Palestinian analyst, said the new groups reflect ‘a vacuum’… Polls show a large majority of Palestinians want President Mahmoud Abbas to resign.”
Context added by this archive
The first naming of the Lion’s Den in an American dispatch, and the agency quotes the group directly from a letter it was sent. Two Palestinian analysts are named and explain the group’s emergence in their own words, which is not how it is usually explained later.
A correction
The slide labels for this scan and the Gaza toll story beside it are switched. This is Sam McNeil’s Lion’s Den feature, filed 22 September 2022.
Cite this clipping
"Palestinian strife highlights lost hopes of armed youths," Florence Morning News, 24 September 2022, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-038. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-038
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