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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=677381
Palestinian Gunmen Challenge Abbas
(AP/ABC News) Mohammed Ballas - Armed Palestinian militants shut down a government building in Jenin in the West Bank on Sunday and threatened to kill members of the Palestinian parliament, demanding the PA provide jobs to former prisoners and to relatives of people killed in fighting. The violent threats were the latest in a series of incidents of lawlessness in the Palestinian territories, and illustrated the challenge Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas faces. About 40 armed men led by Zakariye Zubeidi, the local head of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militant group linked to Abbas's Fatah movement, gathered in the main intersection, firing into the air as several hundred sympathizers encouraged them. Later, two Aqsa gunmen, under orders from Zubeidi, confiscated the keys of the building housing lawmakers' offices and shut it down.