Hamas, Islamic Jihad call for uprising to deter settlers after their attack on Jit village

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The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement called for an uprising and confrontation with settler gangs after a Palestinian civilian was killed in an attack by about 100 armed settlers on the village of Jit east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank on Thursday.

Hamas on Friday mourned in a statement the martyr Rashid Mahmoud Sadeh who was killed by settlers in the town of Jit.

The movement called on “our people in the West Bank to rise up in anger against the crimes of the Israeli occupation and to confront the terrorist attacks of the settlers.”

Hamas sees the attack by criminal settlers on the village of Jit as clear evidence of the terrorist approach of the Israeli occupation and its plans against the Palestinian people and their land in the West Bank.

The movement also stressed that the policy of raids and killings will only serve to further cement the Palestinian people’s attachment to their land and their sanctuaries.

The Islamic Jihad Movement, for its part, said the attack by about 100 settler gangs on the village of Jit east of Qalqilya governorate and their burning of civilian homes and vehicles “is a declaration of war on our people in the West Bank.”

According to the movement, the occupation army’s siege of the village during the attack is reminiscent of the massacres of the Zionist gangs Stern, Irgun and Haganah that were committed in 1948. According to the movement, the occupation army’s participation in protecting against these crimes proves that a government plan is being carried out, sponsored by what the movement described as the war criminal (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu.

It called on the Palestinian people in every village and town in the West Bank to “continue to confront the settler gangs to protect our land and our children.”

Earlier, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the martyrdom of a young Palestinian by settler gunfire in the village of Jit.

According to local sources, around 100 armed settlers entered the village and set fire to vehicles, houses and farmland under the protection of the occupying army, bringing the number of martyrs killed by settlers in the West Bank to 18 since October last year.