News - Middle East: The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has praised a retaliatory operation near Tel Aviv as a “natural” response to the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hamas made the statement on Monday after two Israeli settlers were killed and 20 others injured in a combined car ramming and stabbing attack in the central city of Ra'anana near Tel Aviv.
“We confirm that the 'Ra'anana' operation, carried out by the heroes of our steadfast Palestinian people, is a natural response to the massacres of the Nazi occupation and its continuous aggression against our Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza,” Hamas said.
The popular resistance movement stressed that the retaliatory attacks would continue against the “Nazi” Israeli regime until the occupation was ended.
“The heroes of our people and ... fighters from Rafah to Jenin will continue to defend our people, our land, and our holy sites against the criminal Nazi enemy. The blood of children and unarmed civilians shed by the Zionist war machine in the West Bank and Gaza will be a curse upon the occupation and its ... settlers, who will find no safety or security on our occupied land,” Hamas said.
“We mobilize our revolutionary youth throughout the West Bank and al-Quds, calling on them to escalate the struggle and revolution until the Nazi occupation is defeated, our land and holy sites are liberated, and our Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital is established, God willing,” it added.