Hamas promises revenge after Israel kills two Palestinians

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has vowed revenge against Israel after regime forces martyred two young Palestinian men and injured several others during a violent raid at a refugee camp in the eastern flank of the occupied West Bank.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanoua said, "The Zionist enemy will pay a tremendous price."

"The martyrdom of these two Palestinian youths adds another crime to the bleak rights record and atrocities committed by the occupying extremist Zionist regime,” the spokesman said.

He added that the Zionist entity "will definitely pay for its crimes against the Palestinian nation."

“All Israeli crimes will not break the Palestinian people's determination and their adherence to struggle for the liberation of occupied territories,” he added. 

In the early hours of Tuesday, a large number of Israeli troops, onboard dozens of military vehicles, stormed Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, located three kilometers southwest of Ariha. The raids resulted in armed clashes with resistance fighters there.

Israeli soldiers broke into several houses in the camp, violently searched the buildings and ransacked all properties before leaving.  Israeli troops took a number of Palestinian men away to an unknown location, according to the residents.

The Ariha Hospital’s director said the two young men were rushed to the hospital with bullets in their chests.

Palestinian officials later identified the two young victims as 16-year-old Qusay Omar al-Walaji from the city of Ariha, and Muhammad Ribhi Nujoom al-Omar, 25. He was a resident of the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp.

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