Member of Hamas’s political bureau Husam Badran has warned that the murder of a Palestinian farmer on his land in Nablus by an armed settler on Thursday will not go without response from the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank.
In a press release Badran said that the Palestinian resistance would not remain silent on the settlers’ arrogance and aggression against the Palestinians in the West Bank and would retaliate to their crimes.
“The persecution of the West Bank resistance cannot be accepted today in view of the official impotence to defend our people against the occupation’s violations. The Palestinian Authority is demanded to protect and support the resistance rather than suppressing it” the Hamas official underscored.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation would persist in its crimes against the Palestinians as long as there was no retaliation.
He stressed that the Palestinian people’s armed resistance is a legitimate right and a necessity to protect themselves from the occupation and its crimes.
A 48-year-old Palestinian farmer called Mahmoud Odeh was shot dead on Thursday afternoon by a Jewish settler as he was tending to his land near the village of Qusra to the south of Nablus.
The crime happened after a horde of settlers from the illegal Yash Kod settlement outpost raided Palestinian land near Qusra and brutalized Odeh as he was working his land.
According to locals Odeh attempted to prevent the settlers from entering his land at which point one of the settlers opened fire at him shooting him in the chest. He succumbed to his wounds a short time later.
