Hamas warns Israel’s crimes against Palestinians won’t go unpunished

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that Israel’s never-ending aggression and the crimes committed by settlers against the Palestinian people will not go unpunished.

In a statement released on Monday, Ezzat al-Resheq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said demolishing houses, forcing people from homes, and killing young men will not go unanswered. He described Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes as a crime against humanity.

The Hamas official said the current Israeli policy would never make the Tel Aviv regime secure, rather it would galvanize the Palestinian people’s resistance.

Elsewhere in the statement, Resheq saluted the brave Palestinian youth for standing up against the Israeli aggression across the occupied territories.

For months Israel has been engaged in intensified settlement activities, and its planned eviction of Palestinian families from their ancestral homes in the occupied East al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and several other areas has led to further escalation.

Palestinian rights groups and activists have warned that Israel’s behavior in the occupied West Bank could lead to a new Intifada (uprising).

Tel Aviv is under fire for its extensive use of lethal force and extrajudicial killing of Palestinians. Incidents of sabotage and violence by settlers against Palestinians and their property have become a daily occurrence throughout the occupied territories, particularly in the West Bank. But Israeli authorities rarely prosecute settlers.

Hamas says Israeli regime, settlers playing with fire after flashpoint al-Quds neighborhood attacked

Hamas addresses a strong message of warning to the Israeli regime and settlers after attack on al-Quds

Palestinian prisoners declare ‘Day of Rage’

Separately, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared Monday as a ‘Day of Rage’ in protest against a series of new Israeli punitive measures. The protest action includes a one-day hunger strike.

Meanwhile, the sick prisoners at Israel's notorious Megiddo Prison decided to stop taking medicines in protest against their detention without a charge or trial.

The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) keeps Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions lacking proper hygienic standards in Israeli jails.

Palestinian detainees imprisoned under Israel’s so-called policy of administrative detention continued their boycott of the Israeli military courts for the 45th consecutive day on Monday.

The boycott includes the initial hearings to uphold the administrative detention order, as well as appeal hearings and later sessions at Israel’s ‘Supreme Court.’ At least 500 Palestinian prisoners have so far registered their protest against the controversial policy by refusing to show up for their military court hearings since the beginning of the year.

There are reportedly more than 7,000 Palestinians held at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have been apparently incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention. Rights groups describe Israel’s use of administrative detention as a “bankrupt tactic” and have long called on the regime to bring its use to an end.

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