The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has said that the kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir by Israeli colonial settlers nine years ago is "further a manifestation of the extremism and criminality practised by the Israeli occupation and colonial settlers." 

Hamas spokesperson Abdel Latif al-Qanoa emphasised that Israeli colonial settlers' crimes and aggression against the Palestinian people and their property will never undermine their struggle for freedom. 

In a press statement Saturday, al-Qanoa explained that resistance with all means possible remains the optimal option to confront the growing aggression against the Palestinian people by the Israeli colonial settlers who are protected and sponsored by all components of the Israeli occupation state.

On 2 July 2014, a group of Israeli colonial settlers abducted Abu Khdeir, from Shu'fat town north of occupied Jerusalem. He was taken to a forest in the west of the occupied holy city, brutally tortured and burnt alive.