WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad Movement called for an uprising and confrontation with settler gangs after a Palestinian citizen was killed in an attack by about 100 armed settlers on the village of Jit east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank on Thursday.
Hamas, in a statement on Friday, mourned the martyr Rashid Mahmoud Sadeh who was killed by settler gunfire in the town of Jit.
The Movement called on “our people in the West Bank to rise up in anger against the crimes of the Israeli occupation and to confront the terrorist attacks of the settlers.”
Hamas considered that the criminal settler attack on the village of Jit is clear evidence of the terrorist approach of the Israeli occupation and its plots against the Palestinian people and their land in the West Bank.
The Movement also stressed that the policy of incursions and assassinations will only make the Palestinian people more attached to their land and their sanctities.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad Movement said that the attack of about 100 settler gangs on the village of Jit east of Qalqilya governorate and their burning of homes and vehicles of citizens “is a declaration of war on our people in the West Bank.”
The Movement said that the occupation army’s siege of the village during the attack is reminiscent of the massacres of the Zionist Stern, Irgun and Haganah gangs that were committed in 1948, adding that the participation of the occupation army in protecting these crimes proves that what is being implemented is a government plan sponsored by what it described as the war criminal (Israeli premier) Benjamin Netanyahu.
It appealed to the Palestinian people in every village and city in the West Bank to “continue confronting the settler gangs to protect our land and our children.”
Earlier, the Palestinian Ministry of Health had confirmed the martyrdom of a young Palestinian by settler gunfire in the village of Jit.
Local sources said that about 100 armed settlers infiltrated the village, burning vehicles, homes and agricultural lands under the protection of the occupation army, and thus the number of martyrs by settler gunfire in the West Bank since last October has risen to 18 martyrs.
