Hamas calls for confronting Israeli terrorism in W. Bank

The Hamas Movement has described Israeli forces’ on-site execution of a Palestinian young man in southern Bethlehem as “the same gang behavior that is systematically practiced by the Israeli occupation army and Jewish settlers against the Palestinian people in the West Bank.”

“Such terrorism that is practiced by the occupation army and settlers entails escalating all forms of resistance to fend off this aggression, engaging in a real and joint confrontation, halting the security coordination, and implementing the decisions taken by the secretaries general [of the Palestinian factions] about the need to activate the popular resistance,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said in a press release on Sunday.

A Palestinian young man was shot dead in the morning after he allegedly tried to stab Israeli soldiers at the junction of Gush Etzion in the occupied West Bank.