Hamas vows to avenge Israeli killing of fighters in Gaza airstrikes

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has vowed to retaliate against Israeli airstrikes that left two fighters martyred amid tensions over Washington's recognition of al-Quds as Zionist regime’s capital.

“The enemy will pay the price for breaking the rules of engagement with the resistance in Gaza,” Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said in a statement.

According to Press TV quoting the Health Ministry in Gaza, Zionist regime conducted several aerial attacks against the besieged Gaza Strip on December 8, martyring Mahmoud al-Atal and Mohammed al-Safadi and injuring 14 others, including women and children.

Tel Aviv claimed that Palestinian resistance forces had fired a number of rockets at the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

“The coming days will prove to the enemy the great error and misjudgment of the will and determination of the resistance,” the statement added.

The Israeli aerial attacks came amid escalating tensions in the Occupied Territories in the wake of the US president's recognition of al-Quds as the Israeli capital.

Hamas on Thursday called for a new Palestinian intifada or uprising against Zionist regime, decrying Donald Trump’s decision on al-Quds as a declaration of war.

“The battle for al-Quds continues hour by hour above- and below-ground, and thousands of jihadist fighters are working and preparing at this moment in the darkest conditions, equipped for the battle to liberate al-Quds,” the group said.

“This is evidenced by the martyrdom of two Qassami, martyrs Mohammed Safadi and Mahmoud al-Atal, who martyred… while carrying out their duties in one of the places of preparation,” the statement added.

The Qassam Brigades repeated the calls from Hamas’s political leadership for a new intifada in response to Trump’s move.

“The brigades salute the angry masses struggling for al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque and call them to continue the intifada by all means of resistance,” the statement said.

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