Hamas: West Bank will resist Israel annexation, displacement plans

Palestinians will resist the Israeli occupation’s efforts to displace and ethnically cleanse them from the occupied West Bank, Hamas has said.

In a statement issued yesterday, Hamas said: “In light of the occupation’s escalation of its aggression on the West Bank governorates, our enemy is facing more disappointments, as the West Bank will continue its qualitative strikes, and the occupation’s annexation and displacement plans will fail.”

The movement called on the Palestinians in the West Bank to escalate all forms of resistance and for unity and cohesion, and to intensify the popular momentum and field confrontation with the occupation and its settlers.

Four Palestinians were killed and three others were seriously injured yesterday in an Israeli air strike that targeted a car in Tulkarm camp, in the north of the occupied West Bank.

The strike was carried out as part of a joint operation between the Israeli occupation army and the intelligence service (Shin Bet), they said in a statement.

This comes as the Palestinian Authority security forces continue their siege of the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank, in an effort to target resistance factions.

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