01/09/2010 Four Israelis were killed on Tuesday night when resistance fighters opened fire on their car at the entrance to the Kiryat Arba settlement, near Al-Khalil, in the West Bank, Haaretz reported.
A Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, said the Islamist group praises the attack and considers it a natural response to "the crimes of occupation."
Another Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, said the attack was meant to highlight the failure of the security cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas and the US administration condemned the attack as an attempt to torpedo “peace talks.” PA security forces arrested over two hundred Hamas-affiliated suspects in the Al-Khalil area overnight Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, on suspicion of connection with theattack. Israeli military sources told the Israeli media that there had been no indications that an attack was imminent.
Ashkenazi, on his part, vowed the attackers would be caught. "We are working with security forces in all areas – intelligence and operational – and taking every action to guarantee we place our hands on these murderers and those who sent them," he said during a tour of the attack area.
The attack prompted sharp reactions from settlers, who were quick to draw a link between the killings and the peace talks that are set to get underway. "It's about time that the leaders of Israel wake up from their delusions of an imaginary peace," said Zvi Bar Hai, a settler leader.
[ 01/09/2010 - 10:48 AM ]
NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and occupation police were put on high alert following Tuesday night attack in which four settlers were killed near Al-Khalil city.
An IOF spokesman said that the troops were vigilant in anticipation of more such attacks.
The Israeli army radio said that the occupation police were also watchful in the southern areas near to the scene of the attack fearing more such operations.
Meanwhile, Zionist settlers went on the rampage in villages south and east of Nablus at a late hour on Tuesday night.
Locals reported that settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars causing chaos on traffic lanes and smashing windshields of passing vehicles.
They said that settlers from Yitzhar settlement cut off olive trees in Burin village, south of Nablus.
Tens of settles were seen rioting along the roads leading to Palestinian villages after the attack near Al-Khalil on Tuesday night.
[ 01/09/2010 - 11:46 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed full responsibility for Al-Khalil operation that led to the death of four Israeli settlers on Tuesday evening and stressed it was carried out in retaliation to the constant attacks waged on West Bank villages and towns by the settlers.
"This heroic blessed operation, which was carried out by our fighters, was the latest in a string of previous and subsequent operations (God willing) in response to the ongoing and escalating aggression against our struggling people as well as to the repeated attacks by settlers," Al-Qassam Brigades stated in a communiqué yesterday.
"The Zionist enemy and its lackeys should know that as long as the aggression, the Judaization of Jerusalem and the building of settlements continues, our resistance will keep on and escalate, for it is natural response to the occupation's crimes in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip," it added.
Al-Qassam spokesman Abu Obeida told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that this operation confirmed that the Palestinian resistance, despite the eradication war waged against it by Fatah's authority and the Israeli occupation forces, is still vigilant and able to strike at the appropriate time and place.
Regarding the Israeli threats to retaliate strongly to this operation, Abu Obeida underlined that the Israeli occupation is trying to twist the facts as this operation was a reaction to its crimes and a legitimate right to face its ongoing violations against the Palestinian people.
"The occupation is persistent in its aggression and it does not need any justifications to launch an assault; what we do is a reaction to these crimes," he added.
The spokesman also said that this operation took place on Palestinian lands occupied in 1967 and targeted Israeli settlers who kept savagely attacking the Palestinians lately, so it was legitimate retaliation to their crimes that reached intolerable levels.
Hamas lawmaker and official Mushir Al-Masri hailed this operation in his speech before thousands of Palestinians who rallied yesterday evening in Jabaliya refugee camp to express their support for the Palestinian resistance.
Masri described the operation as the best reply to the direct negotiation between de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli occupation state.
"This is the language of negotiation used by the Palestinian people, the talks through the rifle and not frivolous negotiations in which concessions are made on the Palestinian rights," the lawmaker said.
The popular front for the liberation of Palestine and its armed wing Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades also hailed this operation, saying it was a normal and expected reaction to the ongoing attacks waged by racist and fascist Israeli settlers against the Palestinians in Al-Khalil city.
The Hamas Movement, for its part, said this operation proved the failure of security cooperation between Fatah's authority and the Israeli occupation, while Islamic Jihad described it as a first step to thwart Washington talks.
Other Palestinian resistance factions including the popular resistance movement and Al-Ahrar movement welcomed the operation and urged the resistance in the West Bank to keep targeting Israelis.
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"Murder is murder!
Killing of civilians is NOT resistance!!
Killing of settlers living illegally on Palestinian soil will not end settlement activity!!!" "Desert Peace" claimed "Whoever that group might be, they DO NOT speak or act on behalf of the Palestinian people. Only Israel wants the ‘Peace Process’ to fail, only zionism itself benefits from such actions.
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