Hamas spokesman Husam Badran said that the stabbing operation, which took place at a military checkpoint close to Ramallah city on Saturday, is a popular confirmation that the Palestinians will continue along the path of resistance.

Badran pointed out in a statement on Saturday evening that the Israeli soldiers who are wreaking havoc in the West Bank are now in constant fear of possible Palestinian reactions to the Israeli violations. 

"The Palestinian youths knew the right way to defeat the Israeli occupation and free occupied Palestine, and they started to pave that way courageously and bravely," the Hamas leader said.

Badran called on all Palestinian resistance factions in the West Bank to mobilize the youths' energies to serve the brave resistance, and asked the PA to put an end to the security coordination with Israel.

"The shots fired by the PA security apparatuses at the Palestinian political detainees' families today were supposed to be fired at the Israeli forces instead," Badran said.

A Palestinian youth was shot and injured after he attacked an Israeli soldier with a knife at the Ofer military road barrier west of Ramallah city on Saturday. Later on Saturday evening, another youth was shot and martyred after he attacked a soldier at another checkpoint near the occupied city of Nablus in northern West Bank, where the soldier was said to be lightly injured.