Palestinian resistance groups laud ‘heroic’ Hadera operation against Israeli police officers
Various Palestinian resistance groups have hailed the “heroic” shooting operation by a pair of Palestinian gunmen in the northern city of Hadera, describing it a response to a meeting between top diplomats from four Arab states and Israeli officials in the occupied region of Negev.
According to Press TV, Dawood Shahab, a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad resistance movement, said it is necessary to carry out such operations deep inside the Occupied Territories in order to deter the Israeli enemy from committing acts of aggression and terror against Palestinians.
“Operation Hadera is a response from Palestinians and freedom-loving people of the Muslim Ummah to the evil meeting, which foreign ministers of some Arab countries are participating in,” the senior Islamic Jihad official stated.
“This operation is a strong deterrent message to settlers and soldiers of the occupying Israeli regime, who are causing corruption and destruction and are killing hundreds of innocent people,” Shahab said.
Two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli security forces and wounded four others in a shooting attack in northern Israel before they were shot dead.
The attack came as the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco – three Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel in 2020 – came together for a meeting in southern Occupied Territories, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, also in attendance.
The incident occurred five days after a Palestinian man was fatally shot over an alleged stabbing attack near a shopping center in the southern city of Beersheba, which left four Israeli settlers dead.
Hamas also termed the incident as a “heroic operation” and a “natural and legitimate response” to the “Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinians and their sacred sites.”
“We commend the valor and courage of those who carried out the heroic operation. It came in retaliation for the blood of martyrs, and in response to the aggression and terror of the Israeli regime,” the resistance movement said in a statement.
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