Releasing the terrorist settlers who carried out the Huwwara pogrom in occupied Nablus by the Israeli occupation authorities confirms anew the settler-colonial occupation's fascism and racism against the Palestinian people.

This act also shows the occupation state’s complicity in the crime perpetrated in full view of the world against the Palestinian people, thus encouraging the Israeli settler militias to commit more aggressions.

The international community must take serious and practical measures to punish the Israeli occupation leaders and hold them accountable for the Huwwara pogrom and other crimes against our Palestinian people, and move beyond words of condemnation.

Hazem Qassem 

Hamas spokesperson

Friday, March 3, 2023