The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility on Saturday for the shooting attack that killed Israeli settler Amnon Mukhtar last June.
This came in a statement by Al-Qassam, in which it mourned a group of its fighters who were martyred on Saturday when Israeli aircraft targeted their vehicle in Tulkarm.
The statement said: “With the highest verses of pride, dignity and confidence in God’s imminent victory, the Al-Qassam Brigades announce to the sons of our great people and the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation a group of its honorable knights, Commander Haitham Nour al-Din Balidi (from Tulkarm camp), Martyr Jamal Ibrahim Abu Haniya (from Qalqilya), Martyr Ali Khalil Abu Bakr (from Qalqilya), and Martyr Ahmed Ibrahim Muhajna (from Nour Shams camp).”
The statement added: “They were martyred today, Saturday, August 3, 2024, as a result of a cowardly assassination operation carried out by treacherous aircraft on a vehicle they were riding in between the villages of Attil and Zeita
in Tulkarm Governorate, accompanied by their martyred brother, the leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, Abdul Jabbar Fahd Sabbagh.”
Al-Qassam continued in its statement: ‘As we mourn a new group of our resistance martyrs in the occupied West Bank, we announce our responsibility for the shooting and liquidation operation of the Zionist Amnon Mukhtar, a resident of the occupied city of Petah Tikva, which was carried out by the two Qassam martyrs Jamal Abu Haniyeh and Ali Abu Bakr in the city of Qalqilya on June 22, 2024.’
The Al-Qassam Brigades stressed that “the escape of the occupation army soldiers from the fields of direct confrontation, and the resort of the cowardly army leadership to intensify the aerial bombardment and assassinations of the resistance fighters in the West Bank will have disastrous results for the treacherous occupier, and our resistance and our fighters will only increase their determination and resolve to carry out more resistance actions in all the cities, villages and camps of the occup
ied West Bank; the strikes of our resistance fighters will intensify, their numbers will double, and neither warplanes nor drones will stop their flood, God willing.”
On June 22, the Israeli army announced the killing of an Israeli by gunfire in Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank, noting that the army and police forces were investigating the circumstances of the incident
Source: Maan News Agency