News - Middle East: Palestinian resistance factions have hailed a “heroic” retaliatory shooting operation near the Allenby Bridge on the border between the occupied West Bank and Jordan in response to Israel’s unending genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement said, “This heroic act is the most genuine expression of the sentiments of the Jordanian people, as well as the Arab and Muslim nations, towards the brutal massacres committed by the enemy.”

It went on to say that “such heroic operations are the only response understood” by the United States which has been a partner in Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.  

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas also described the heroic operation as a “natural response” to the crimes committed by the occupying regime against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.