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PA Using Prisoner's Death from Cancer to Keep Up Populist Struggle Against Israel
(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - The Palestinian Authority knows full well that the prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiya, who died of cancer on Tuesday, did not become ill because of Israel. Yet PA President Mahmoud Abbas publicly accused Israel of playing a part in his death. The PA leadership sees a need to maintain the popular struggle in the West Bank, and there has been a continuous increase in the number of "populist" incidents (the throwing of rocks and petrol bombs, demonstrations) over the last six months.