Hamas: Jerusalem attack natural response to Israeli crimes

Hamas Movement declared its support for the Jerusalem attack on Friday in which a Palestinian young man used his car to run over a group of Israeli conscripts moderately wounding seven of them while he was shot and seriously injured.

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, described the attack in a press release as “heroic”, adding that it was a natural response to the incessant Israeli crimes against Jerusalemites.

Barhoum held the racist, fanatic Israeli occupation government responsible for the worsening conditions in Jerusalem, calling for more attacks in defense of the Palestinian people and holy shrines.

Meanwhile, Hamas Movement in the West Bank issued a statement hailing the daring attack that took place despite the Israeli security precautions.

Hamas described the attacker, 21-year-old Mohammed Salayma from Ras al-Amoud in occupied Jerusalem, as a hero, adding that the attack was in response to the Israeli crimes in Jerusalem, repeated desecration of the Aqsa Mosque, continued siege on Gaza, and the ever growing settlement drive in the West Bank.

Salayma managed to run over a group of Israeli conscripts before slamming his car into the Light Rail station in northern Jerusalem then got out of his car and brandished what Israeli witnesses said was a “cleaver” and started running before he was shot.