The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas considers the Israeli occupation’s fencing of vast areas of Palestinian lands in the northern Jordan Valley a move intended to annex the area to be later used for colonial settlement expansion. Such a move is a crime added to the repeated Israeli violations against the Palestinian lands, people, and holy sites. 

The Hamas movement affirms that the Israeli occupation’s non-stop policy of displacement and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people will not succeed in wiping out the historical features of Palestine. Neither will it deter our people from continuing their freedom struggle until liberation and return.

Hamas hails the Palestinian citizens of the occupied West Bank and calls on them to stand against the attacks of the Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers and resist them with all means possible.

Fawzi Barhoum
Hamas spokesperson