This footage was filmed and produced 29 June 2021.

Demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority (PA) are growing across the West Bank after the death in custody of one of President Mahmoud Abbas’s biggest critics. Several hundred people took to the streets for the fifth consecutive day on Monday to protest against the treatment of Nizar Banat, a social and political activist, who died during an arrest by the authority’s forces in Hebron on 24 June.

Crowds waving Palestinian flags, pictures of Banat, and calling for an end to Abbas’s 16-year rule, have been met with brutal force from both Palestinian security forces and men in plain clothes loyal to Abbas’s Fatah party.

The video shows a man talking about the forces used by the Palestinian Authority against activists and endangering their lives.