Member of the Political Bureau and Head of the Jerusalem Affairs Office in the (Hamas) Movement, Harun Nasir al-Din:

▪ The field execution crime committed by the occupation at dawn today against a Jerusalemite young man from residents of occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext of his attempt to carry out a stabbing operation at Bab al-Amud in the holy city, comes as part of the series of its ongoing war and organized terrorism against our people everywhere, especially in occupied Jerusalem, which is witnessing a dangerous escalation in the crimes of the occupation and its settlers against its Jerusalemite residents in a desperate attempt to undermine their resilience and steadfastness.

▪ We mourn the martyr who was assassinated and affirm that the pure blood of the martyrs from which the blessed land of Palestine is nourished will not be in vain, and that these crimes will only increase our people’s determination to resist and remain steadfast until the occupation is defeated.

▪ We hold the Zionist الاحتلال fully responsible for the consequences of these crimes and call for more rallying around the resistance and unity in the face of the occupation, which delusionally thinks that its brutal crimes will break the will of our steadfast people.

▪ We call on our people in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the occupied interior to journey and remain steadfast at Al-Aqsa Mosque and to confront with full force the terrorism of the occupation and its settlers, who understand only the language of القوة.