Hamas hails perpetrators of shooting attack near Hebron, calls for escalation in West Bank

By Gianluca Pacchiani

You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page

You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page

1 September 2024, 11:38 am

Edit

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

A Border Policewoman takes position in the area of a shooting attack near the Tarqumiya crossing north of Hebron in the the West bank on September 1, 2024. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Hamas praises the perpetrators of this morning’s fatal shooting attack near Hebron in the southern West Bank but does not claim responsibility for it.

In a statement, the terror group praises the “heroic resistance operation” in which three Israeli policemen were killed near the Palestinian city of Tarqumiyah, northwest of Hebron.

Hamas describes the attack as a “natural response” to the “genocidal war” in the Gaza Strip and the “Zionist crimes” in the West Bank, and calls on all West Bank residents to block the roads used by Israeli settlers, and on “whoever carries a weapon” to fire it at the “occupiers.”