The three were killed when a truck driver opened fire at the King Hussein (Allenby) border crossing between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media.
“We confirm our adherence to what was agreed upon after President Biden-backed proposal at the end of May, and UN Security Council Resolution No. 2735, which the movement agreed to on July 2,” Khalil Al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a video clip posted on Telegram.
The ongoing military offensives by Israeli forces in the West Bank, which are currently concentrated in the city of Jenin, are a continuation of the war crimes committed by Israel throughout the Gaza Strip as well as the West Bank, Hamas said in a statement.
“In this black August, some 15 Israeli soldiers were killed in battles in Gaza and the north (with Lebanon), and this is the price of a war of attrition,” reported the daily.
On Sunday, the latest round of talks held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo faltered and the Israeli and Hamas delegations left without reaching an agreement.
“Israeli occupation violations continue with the support of Washington and Western capitals that provide cover for the extremist government to proceed with genocide,” Hamas said in a statement.
Over 2,250 illegal settlers forced their way into the Muslim holy site yesterday to commemorate Tisha B’Av, an annual Jewish day of fasting that marks the occurrence of several disasters in Jewish history.
In a statement, Hamas political bureau member Izzat Al-Rishq said what Gallant said “confirms what we have always said: that Netanyahu is lying to the world and the families of the [Israeli] prisoners [held in Gaza].”
In an interview with an Iranian media outlet, Khaled Qaddoumi, the Hamas envoy to Tehran, revealed that Iran's leadership is preparing a "definite and decisive" response to Israel's killing of Haniyeh. The retaliation, he emphasized, will be carried out at a "substantial level."
The group released the statement requesting the mediators "present a plan to implement what they offered to the movement and which was agreed upon on July 2, based on Biden-backed proposal and the UN Security Council resolution, and to compel the (Israeli) occupation to adhere to it, rather than proceeding with more rounds of negotiations or new proposals ...
Last week Hamas chose Sinwar, its top official in Gaza, as the new leader of the movement’s political bureau following Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination in the Iranian capital Tehran on 31 July. Both Hamas and Iran blame Israel for the strike that killed Haniyeh. Tel Aviv has not claimed responsibility.
Palestinian resistance group calls for ‘the implementation of the decisions made at the joint Arab and Islamic summit which took place in Riyadh on Nov. 11 last year’
“The occupation’s goals behind these massacres, of terrorism, intimidation, and displacement, will be shattered by the steadfastness of this brave people and their resistance,” the Palestinian movement asserted.
According to the Palestine Information Center, Abdul Salam Haniyeh added: "We are in a continuous uprising and struggle against the occupying enemy, and the resistance does not end with the assassination of its leaders."