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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zena Al Tahhan

What is Israel’s end game with the Palestinian Authority?

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2010, the last time the two held formal talks [File: Jason Reed/Reuters]

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – At dawn on December 8, the sound of gunshots rang out above al-Manara Square, the central roundabout in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Dozens of Israeli armoured vehicles had raided the area, less than a kilometre (0.6 miles) away from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA’s) headquarters to go into a print shop and shut it down. They plastered a poster outside that read: “This shop supports terrorism.”

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