Palestinian presidency: Israel's policy will ignite a religious war

The Palestinian presidency condemned the “new crime” committed by the Israeli army in the Qalandia refugee camp saying the policy will “ignite a religious war”.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the Israeli government insists on using the same policies of “murderous operations, field executions and collective punishments” in a way that violates international law.

Hamas also condemned the “Qalandia massacre”, considering it “an example of Israeli terror” that constitutes “the peak of terror and evil in the world.”

The movement called on the international community to stand up to the daily Israeli violations against Palestinians.

Islamic Jihad added that the “Qalandia massacre” is a living example of “Israeli terror”.

“Israel’s crimes against Palestinians are a new evidence of the terror that feeds all the evil plaguing the world.”

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called on the international community to confront “the world’s worst type of terror”.

“The Qalandia massacre is a new episode in the series of Israeli terror… the world must work toward to save innocent people in Palestine and end the policy of double standards.”

The left-wing Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemned the “silence of the international community about daily Israeli crimes”, adding that it results in more murders, attacks and terror.

Three Palestinians were killed yesterday when Israel stormed the Qalandia camp, adjacent to Jerusalem, the army said.

Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee claimed that during the Israeli incursion into the camp, a number of armed Palestinian youths opened fire on to the soldiers, and the three Palestinians were killed when the soldiers returned fire.

In the past month, the Palestinian territories and a number of Arab towns in Israel have witnessed confrontations between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces resulting from the insistence of extremist right-wing Jews to continue to break into Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli police and army.