‘Dire and dangerous’: Hamas, PA condemn deadly Israeli escalation in West Bank
The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the West Bank-headquartered Palestinian Authority have vehemently condemned escalation of the Israeli regime’s deadly aggression across the occupied territory.
At least 11 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday after the regime began taking various areas throughout the territory, especially those lying in its northern parts, under intensified airstrikes and ground attacks.
The regime’s forces also engaged in a widespread campaign of arrests and systematic destruction of infrastructure across the targeted areas.
Hamas called the escalation a “practical attempt by the terrorist occupation army to implement the plans of the extremist Zionist cabinet,” adding that the Israeli forces were acting on the ideas “expressed by its (the regime’s) fascist ministers.”
Notorious figures within the regime, including so-called security minister Itamar Ben Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, have called for the 1967-occupied territory’s annexation by Tel Aviv. The latter has even set out plans to prevent the territory’s inclusion as part of a Palestinian state.
Hamas, meanwhile, warned that the regime was seeking to expand its October-present genocidal war on Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of at least 40,534 Palestinians, to the West Bank.
It considered the regime’s aggression against both the territories to be a product of “the suspicious international silence” and “the absolute political and military support from the American administration and some Western capitals.”
The movement, however, expressed certainty that the regime’s campaign in the West Bank “will undoubtedly be broken by the steadfastness of our people.”
Concluding its statement, it called on the Palestinians there to engage in a general mobilization and escalate all forms of resistance.
Also on Wednesday, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s presidency, denounced the Israeli aggression, saying it continued a “comprehensive war” on the Palestinian people, their land, and their holy sites.
The policy would lead to “dire and dangerous” results, he warned, adding, however, that the escalation would not reward the regime with security and stability.
The world must take "immediate and urgent action" to curb this extremist regime that "poses a threat to the stability of the region and the world as a whole,” he said.
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