Hamas hints Israel carried out Hamdallah assassination attempt

Hamas, blamed by the Palestinian Authority for the attempted assassination of PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Tuesday, condemns the attack and suggests Israel may have carried it out.

In an English-language statement on its website, Hamas says (typos in the original):

The Palestinian Islamic Movement Hamas condemns targeting the convoy of Dr Rami Hamadallah and considers it part of the attempts to destabilise the security in the Gaza Strip, as well as an attempt to undermine ongoing efforts to achieve the national unity and internal reconcilaiiton.

Hamas stresses that those, who targeted Hamadallah’s convoy, are the same people who assassinated martyr Mazen Foqahaa and attempted to assassinate Major General Tawfiq abu-Naim.

Meanwhile, Hamas condemns the ready accusations by the Palestinian presidency against Hamas, which calls for the security services and the ministry of interior to open an urgent and immediate investigation into the incident in order to know who is responsible for it and to bring the perpetrators to the court.

Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman of the Palestinian Islamic Movement Hamas

Last May, Hamas accused Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of assassinating Mazen Faqha in a shooting in the Gaza Strip. Faqha, a senior Hamas operative, was responsible for planning terror attacks against Israelis from the West Bank.