The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced Israeli right-wing minister Itamar Ben Gvir for calling to award a medal of honor to the Jewish settler who shot dead 19-year-old Qusai Maatan during an attack on Burqa town in eastern Ramallah last Friday.
In a statement on Sunday Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said that Ben Gvir’s call for honoring the killer of Maatan reflected the enormity of terrorism fascism and racism that dominates the right-wing Israeli government’s policies.
Qasem also accused the Israeli government of disrespecting the international law and behaving like a militia.
Israeli security minister Itamar Ben Gvir reacted Sunday to a recent incident in which an extremist Jewish settler shot dead a Palestinian man praising the killer and calling for giving him and other killers of Palestinians &ldquomedals of honor.&rdquo
On Friday night a settler called Yehiel Indore fatally shot 19-year-old Qusai Matan in the neck outside the West Bank town of Burqa close to Ramallah on private Palestinian land according to Palestinian health and local officials.
The shooting incident happened when a horde of extremist settlers infiltrated into Burqa town at nighttime before local residents spotted them and tried to fend them off.
