'Natural response to Israeli crimes': Hamas hails 'heroic' reprisal op near al-Quds
Iran Press TV
Friday, 12 September 2025 3:48 PM
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has hailed as "heroic" a reprisal stabbing operation, which left two Israelis injured, near the occupied al-Quds.
Hamas described the operation as "a natural response to its [Israel's] crimes and brutal massacres in the Gaza Strip and the attacks by the fascist settlers in cities and villages of the West Bank and al-Quds, and to its desperate attempts to impose the annexation [of the West Bank] and displacement [of the Palestinians]."
On Friday, Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian young man from Shuafat neighborhood over the stabbing attack, which was reportedly conducted at a hotel in illegal Tzova settlement.
The attack left a person seriously wounded and the other with moderate injury.
"The ongoing operations carried out by the rebellious youth of Palestine against the occupation's criminal soldiers come amid the continuous genocidal war in Gaza and the West Bank, and the enemy's extended crimes that have affected our brotherly Arab countries, the latest of which was the targeting of the negotiating delegation of the [Hamas] movement in the Qatari capital, Doha," Hamas said.
On Tuesday, Israel launched airstrikes on the headquarters of Hamas in Doha, in what was described as an "assassination operation" that claimed the lives of several members of the movement as well as a Qatari security officer. However, the group's top leadership, including Khalil al-Hayya, Khaled Meshal, and Zaher Jabarin, survived.
Hamas condemned, in a strongly-worded statement the Israel's attempted assassination targeting its negotiating delegation in Doha and said the onslaught was a "heinous crime" and a violation of international law.
Israel has launched a genocidal war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian resistance fighters waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the Zionist entity in response to the regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.
The regime's bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed more than 64,718 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Since Israel launched the genocidal war on Gaza, the regime has also intensified its attacks in various parts of the West Bank.
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