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Hundreds of Israeli-backed Palestinian Authority militiamen on Monday stormed a major boarding school and orphanage in Dura, near Hebron, force-opening doors and vandalizing property.

According to eyewitnesses, the heavily-armed militiamen asked the head of the school's board of trustees of, Abdul Jail Amayreh, to hand over keys to the compound where hundreds of orphan school children receive lodging and education free of charge.

Sources in Dura said PA security agencies already decided to appoint a new board of trustees whose members are acceptable to Israel and the Fattah organization.

Eyewitnesses said several Israeli army jeeps and armored vehicles also took place in the raid which occurred Monday afternoon.

Earlier this week, Fattah militiamen stormed the Ahli hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the West Bank, and forcibly removed elected officials, replacing them with Fattah operatives.

The Ahli hospital, established by the Muslim Brotherhood movement nearly 20 years ago, is considered one of the best hospitals in Palestine, especially in comparison to the under-funded and badly-managed hospitals run by the Fattah-dominated Palestinian Health Ministry.

The PA has been carrying out a rampage against Islamic institutions in the West Bank, including schools, charities, businesses, orphanages and NGOs in retaliation for Hamas's crackdown on Israeli Fattah-affiliated collaborators in the Gaza Strip.

These collaborators, funded and trained by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had been instructed to carry out urban bombings throughout the Gaza strip for the purpose of destabilizing the Hamas-led Gaza government.