Palestinian groups applaud Gush Etzion attack
Several organizations call terrorist attack a "natural response to Zionist crimes against Palestinians.
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic
Jihad, praised the murder of Ari Fuld on Sunday, saying it was a
“natural response to Zionist crimes against the Palestinians.”
The Palestinian Authority did not immediately comment on the terrorist
attack.The PA’s official news agency, Wafa, reported on the attack in a
brief item under the headline: “The occupation injures a teenager south
of Bethlehem.”
The report identified the terrorist as 17-year-old Khalil Ali Jabarin of
the town of Yatta south of Hebron. According to the report, Jabarin was
injured “under the pretext that he attempted to carry out a stabbing
attack” in Gush Etzion.
Hamas quickly reacted to the terrorist attack and called it a “heroic stabbing operation.”
Husam Badran, a senior Hamas official, said in a statement: “We welcome
this heroic operation and affirm that harming al-Aqsa Mosque is a red
line.” The terrorist attack, he added, came in response to what Israel
is planning to do in the al-Aqsa Mosque. Our Palestinian people will not
remain silent towards the ongoing violations against al-Aqsa.”
The Hamas official was referring to visits by Jews to the Temple Mount,
which Palestinians claim are aimed at altering the status quo at the
holy site. The PA and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, have condemned the
visits and accused Jews of “defiling” the Islamic compound, which Jews
also claim as a holy site.PA-controlled media outlets regularly describe
the visits as “violent invasions by Jewish extremists” to al-Aqsa
Mosque.
Hamas spokesman Abdel Latif Qanou also praised the terrorist attack, and
said it proved that the intifada against Israel was continuing.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the second largest terrorist group in the
Gaza Strip, issued a statement praising the “heroic operation against
Zionist terrorism.” It said the murder of Fuld was a “natural response
to Zionist crimes against our people, our lands and our holy sites.”
The group called on Palestinians in the West Bank to step up “military operations” against settlers.
Another Gaza-based terrorist group, the Popular Resistance Committees,
said in a statement that the attack was a “form of popular resistance
against the Zionist-American conspiracy” against the Palestinians.
Palestinians refer to US President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-announced
plan for peace in the Middle East as an Israeli-American “conspiracy
aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause.”
The armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(DFLP), a PLO terrorist faction, hailed the attack as a “natural
response to Israeli crimes.” It said the “resistance will eventually
force the occupation to go away,” and called for additional attacks on
IDF soldiers and settlers.
The terrorist’s grandfather, Jamal, said the family did not know of their son’s intention to carry out the attack.
“He left home early in the morning,” he said. “He told his mother that
he would return for breakfast before going to school. We later learned
from the media and neighbors that he had been injured and taken to
hospital.”
Unconfirmed reports said the terrorist’s family notified the PA security
forces that he was missing after he failed to return home or show up
for school.
Sources in Yatta said the IDF detained the terrorist’s father and two brothers for questioning.
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