Hamas: Vehicle-ramming attack north of Ramallah legitimate response to Israeli aggression

In a statement issued on Sunday evening, Hamas said the attack occurred against the backdrop of escalating Israeli crimes and ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, as well as the situation in the occupied West Bank, where it said settlement expansion has intensified alongside daily military incursions and systematic assaults carried out by the occupation army and settler groups against Palestinian civilians and their land.

The Movement stressed that resistance in all its forms is a right of the Palestinian people and remains the only way to confront Israel’s plans and its ongoing violations in the West Bank. It said Israel is attempting to impose facts on the ground by force through settlement construction and repeated attacks on Palestinians, their land, and their holy sites, without deterrence or accountability.

Hamas also called on Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem to increase mobilization and readiness, and to escalate comprehensive confrontation with the occupation and its settlers.

Earlier on Sunday evening, a settler was injured in a vehicle-ramming incident near the Atteret settlement, north of the city of Ramallah, according to Israeli reports. Israeli occupation forces subsequently imposed a security cordon around the area and launched pursuit operations.

Zionist regime’s army radio reported that a Palestinian vehicle carried out the ramming attack before withdrawing from the scene. Hebrew-language media said an initial report indicated that the incident took place in the Atteret area near Ramallah.