'Only a smokescreen': Hamas condemns rising settler violence, Ben-Gvir's treatment of prisoners
According to Hamas, the Israeli government’s condemnations of the attacks are "nothing more than a smokescreen” meant to ease international pressure.
Hamas harshly condemned the surge in violent settler activity in the West Bank on Sunday, branding it as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "genocidal war" against Palestinians. The group's statement, shared on their English-language Telegram channel, accused Netanyahu of pursuing the same genocidal approach in the West Bank as he did in Gaza, by allowing settlers to carry out organized terrorism.
Hamas believed Netanyahu was using the violence to appease right-wing extremists and create a smokescreen to avoid international scrutiny.
In a separate declaration, Hamas expressed outrage over National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's recent visit to Damon Prison. The minister was seen touring a security wing and interacting with female Palestinian Islamic Jihad prisoners. Hamas accused Ben-Gvir of using the women's suffering as a spectacle before cameras, revealing the depths of Israeli fascism and moral corruption.
The terror group warned of the dangers of using the occupation's prisons for violations, humiliation, threats, torture, and murder, and called for effective actions to end the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. Additionally, Hamas lamented the international community's failure to hold Israel accountable for its actions, vowing to keep the issue in the public eye until the Palestinians' suffering ceases to be normalized.
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