Islamic Jihad slams Israel’s assassination of Saadi

The Islamic Jihad Movement held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the assassination of NafieSaadi, one of its resistence fighters in Jenin refugee camp.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed the 21-year-old young man, after he was arrested together with his cousin. They were both shot by Israeli gunfire when they confronted Israeli soldiers that were storming the house of prisoner Sheikh Jamal Abu al-Hija in the Jenin camp on Thursday night.

Islamic Jihad in a statement mourned martyr Saadi, a fighter in its military wing Al-Quds Brigades, and hoped a speedy recovery for the wounded.

For its part, Hamas movement has warned the Israeli occupation of the consequences of its raids and brutal attacks on the Palestinian citizens.

Hamas denounced the raid into the home of leader Sheikh Jamal Abu al-Hija by occupation forces, and considered the assassination of Nafie Saadi a new crime to be added to the series of crimes committed against the Palestinian people, their land and holy places.

It stressed in a statement on Thursday that the occupation practices and crimes will not succeed in breaking the will of the leaders and national icons, and cannot undermine the resistance.

“We call on the masses of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Jerusalem to confront the enemy attacks, and to continue their struggle in the defense of the land and holy sites,” the movement said.

It also urged the Palestinian authority to end its security coordination with the occupation and shoulder its responsibilities in defending the citizens in the occupied West Bank who are exposed to the soldiers and settlers’ daily violations.