Hamas praises deadly West Bank stabbing attack

A spokesman for the Hamas terror group praises the deadly stabbing attack in the West Bank earlier today.

“We bless the stabbing operation in Bethlehem that took place in parallel to our people’s sacrifices in the marches of return and that affirms the continuation of our people’s Jerusalem intifada and its legitimate right in practicing resistance against the occupation in all of its forms,” Hamas spokesman Abdelatif al-Qanou writes on his Facebook account.

According to the Israeli military, a 17-year-old Palestinian from Yatta, a village south of Hebron, fatally stabbed an Israeli man at the Gush Etzion Junction in the central West Bank.

The man, who subsequently succumbed to his wounds at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, was later identified as 45-year-old Ari Fuld of the nearby settlement of Efrat.

— Adam Rasgon