Day of Rage:
Hamas calls on all Palestinians to attend pro-Gaza rallies
A senior official of the Hamas resistance group has called on all Palestinians, including those in the occupied West Bank, to take part in the planned demonstrations in solidarity with the Gaza Strip amid a genocidal Israeli war on the besieged territory.
Abdel Rahman Shadid made the request in a statement that was posted on Telegram ahead of marches scheduled for Tuesday to condemn Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestinians.
"We call on the free people of our nation and the university students of the occupied West Bank to mobilize and turn out widely in the angry marches scheduled for Tuesday, in support of Gaza and in rejection of the genocide war that the occupation continues to wage against our people," he said.
Israel waged its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
So far, the occupying regime has killed at least 51,240 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 116,931 others, in Gaza.
Since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians have intensified across the West Bank. More than 955 Palestinians have been killed and 8,000 others abducted during the attacks.
Shadid said the student movement in the West Bank must take urgent action for Gaza in light of the ongoing Israeli war of extermination.
He further emphasized that Israeli raids and arrest campaigns should not deter the West Bank university students from standing by Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Hamas official urged "escalating all forms of resistance to confront the occupation's aggression and its displacement plans in Gaza, the West Bank, and al-Quds".
Palestinians should mobilize and activate every means of confrontation "to defend our land and holy sites, and to deter the occupation and its settler gangs."