Hamas-affiliated battalion fires rocket toward illegal settlement near Jenin

A battalion affiliated with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says it has fired a rocket toward an illegal Zionist settlement in the vicinity of the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

In a statement released on Thursday, the al-Ayyash battalion, which is affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it had targeted the Ram-On illegal settlement with a Qassam-1 rocket.

It said that the operation was in response to Israeli crimes, including raids by settlers on the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of al-Quds.

“Al-Aqsa Mosque is a red line and we will never allow the Zionists to violate it,” it added.

Illegal Israeli settler incursions into al-Aqsa Mosque and violence against Palestinians have been on the rise since Benjamin Netanyahu took office last December.

In another development on Thursday, Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian Shu'fat refugee camp in al-Quds.

Citing local sources, WAFA news agency reported that the regime soldiers, along with Israel Tax Authority staff, broke into a number of shops in the camp.

Israeli forces usually break into Palestinian shops in the camp and impose tax on their owners.

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