The Palestinian Authority’s crackdown on protest shows it will never serve its own people | Yara Hawari

Palestinians are being repressed and brutalised by their own government in collaboration with the Israeli stateYara Hawari is a senior policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy NetworkOn 24 June, Nizar Banat, a longtime activist and outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), was reportedly arrested and beaten outside his cousin’s home in Hebron by the authority’s security forces – he died in custody shortly after. In regular videos recorded and posted to his