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U.S. Pushing to Boost PA Security Presence in Northern West Bank
(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to boost the Palestinian Authority's security presence in the northern West Bank, U.S. and Palestinian officials said. The PA has seen its control over growing swaths of the West Bank slip away, particularly in Jenin and Nablus. Israel says that as a result, it has been forced to send its own troops into those areas to carry out arrests of security suspects. The plan would see the establishment of PA Civil Police SWAT teams in Jenin and Nablus in order to re-establish PA control. PA officials have given a chilly response to the proposal thus far, saying it would be difficult to recruit such a force.