GAZA (PIC)– Hamas on Wednesday called on all Palestinian national factions to join a meeting set to be convened Thursday to decide on a response to Israel’s murder of a resistance fighter south of Gaza in a renewed violation of the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire accord.
Hamas said in a statement the meeting is to be convened at 10 a.m. on Thursday to decide on a reaction to Israel’s infringement of the truce accord.
Taiseer Yousef Samiri 34 one of al-Qassam resistance fighters was killed during clashes that took place after the Israeli occupation soldiers fired shells close to east of al-Qarara town near Khan Younis in the southern area of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas held the Israeli occupation responsible for the simmering tension that rocked southern Gaza Wednesday.
Hamas spoke out against the series of violations and terror campaigns perpetrated by the Israeli occupation on a quasi-daily basis in Gaza. This includes the mock raids infiltrations into the border fence and the random shooting of fishermen and farmers.
The movement said Hamas would only be committed to the truce agreement on conditions that the Israeli occupation is.
Hamas’s armed wing Izzeddin al-Qassam warned the Israeli occupation against stepping up violations of the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire saying “Israel would be the first to be burned by its fire.”
Referring to Wednesday’s attack the group said this was a “dangerous violation and a crossing of all red lines as well as an act of playing with fire.”
“The enemy alone bears the responsibility of the repercussions of its uncalculated actions” al-Qassam warned.
“The blood of our martyrs will remain a beacon lighting up our way to the liberation of Palestine” the group added.
“It seems that this murderous enemy has not learned the hard lessons it was dealt by the resistance in the past” al-Qassam added. “The enemy thinks that our people and the resistance are tired or exhausted after the last war.”
At least 2100 Palestinians were killed while over 11000 were left wounded in the latest 51-day Israeli offensive on the blockaded Gaza Strip last summer.
Taiseer is the second Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli occupation forces since the two sides struck the truce deal on August 26.
