JENIN(Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has hailed Thursday’s stabbing operation in the town of Rummana, west of Jenin, as a powerful message that efforts by the Israeli occupation to suppress Palestinian resistance have failed.
The Movement said the act was carried out in response to the ongoing massacres in Gaza and the West Bank, the brutal treatment of Palestinian prisoners, and the repeated assaults on Islamic holy sites—particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In a statement, Hamas mourned the martyrdom of 55-year-old Ahmed Ali Amour, who carried out the attack and was later shot dead by Israeli occupation forces (IOF).
The Movement emphasized that such operations reaffirm the Palestinian people’s refusal to remain silent in the face of displacement, annexation, and the systematic Judaization of their land and sacred places.
“This operation is a clear message that the flame of resistance in the West Bank will not be extinguished,” Hamas said. “Our people will continue to rise up against the occupation, no matter the cost,” it added.
Hamas also called on Palestinians in the West Bank to escalate all forms of resistance, unify their efforts to confront the occupation, raise the cost of its presence, and defend their land and identity.
Local sources reported that Amour was executed by Israeli forces after being shot with live ammunition and then repeatedly run over by a military vehicle. His body was seized by IOF soldiers, and his sons were arrested at the scene. The IOF claimed that Amour had stabbed and wounded a soldier, who was later transferred to Rambam Hospital.
This incident comes amid a backdrop of rising tensions and escalating Israeli aggression across the West Bank and Gaza, with increasing resistance activity persisting despite a heavy crackdown by occupation forces.
