We keep saying it: Disarm the terrorists!

More chaos in the west bank. The only way Abbas can deal with this is to start to disarm terrorist groups. There's no other way around this.

In the third incident of its kind in recent days, Fatah gunmen stormed the offices of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Jenin, accusing the Palestinian Authority of failing to pay the families of security prisoners held in Israel.

Palestinian officials say the increasing frequency of such incidents underlines widening dissatisfaction with Mahmoud Abbas's stewardship of the Palestinian Authority, and the growing threat of a descent into anarchy unless he is able to tighten his grip.

Led by Zakariya Zubeidi, commander of Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, in Jenin, some 40 gunmen also blocked traffic in the city's main square for several hours. The gunmen were among hundreds of residents who demonstrated in the city in solidarity with security prisoners.