Palestinian militants fired on a Palestinian police station on Friday in an incident that underscored difficulties new President Mahmoud Abbas faces in trying to impose law and order in the West Bank and Gaza.The incident began when a member of the militant al-Awda Brigades, part of Abbas’s Fatah faction, came to the station in the West Bank city of Nablus to visit his jailed brother, but was refused permission to see him by police. The militant shouted threats at police and was then beaten by them before he called in other gunmen from the group who began firing at the station, a member of the brigades said. Return fire from police wounded two of the armed men, he added.Full Story
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