Head of Hamas International Relations Office Dr Musa Abu Marzouq has stated that the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid into occupied Nablus "reflects the criminal nature of the Israeli occupation that has been shedding the Palestinian blood, desecrating holy places, and seizing Palestinian land".

The senior Hamas official called for escalating resistance in the face of the relentless Israeli attacks and violations against Palestinians and their holy places.

The Israeli occupation forces' repeated attacks against the Palestinian people require the Arab and Muslim Ummah to stop the course of normalization with the settler-colonial occupation state and boycott and impose sanctions on it, Abu Marzouq added.

The senior Hamas official also added that the repeated Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people encourage the Arab and Muslim countries to reject normalization of ties with the Israeli occupation. “It is a stab in the back of Palestinians.”