Hamas on Thursday has mourned the death of Ashraf Na’luwa and Saleh Barghouti who were assassinated by the Israeli occupation forces hours earlier.
Hamas announced the death of Ashraf Na’luwa who has been chased down by the Israeli military for over nine weeks after he carried out an anti-occupation shooting attack near Israel’s illegal settlement of Brakan.
Hamas also announced the death of Saleh al-Barghouti who carried out an anti-occupation attack last week near the Israeli outpost of Ofra illegally built on Palestinian land north of Ramallah.
Hamas vowed that anti-occupation attacks and resistance operations will be kept up across the occupied Palestinian territories until the Palestinians retrieve their land rights and holy sites.
“Such assassinations will not dampen our resistance spirit” Hamas said in a statement. “The blood of Na’luwa and al-Barghouti will not go in vain. We will continue our anti-occupation struggle until the liberation of Palestine.”
29-year-old Saleh Omar Barghouti from Kobar village in the occupied West Bank was shot injured and arrested by the Israeli military on Wednesday evening before he was pronounced dead shortly after.
On December 9 seven Israelis residing in an illegal settlement built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank were injured in an anti-occupation shooting attack allegedly carried out by al-Barghouti near Ofra.
The Israeli occupation forces assassinated Ashraf Na’luwa at dawn Thursday following a military operation in Askar refugee camp in Nablus city.
Na’luwa is accused of carrying out the deadly shooting attack on October 7 in Barkan industrial zone in Ariel settlement near Salfit city in the occupied West Bank.
