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Palestinian groups vow to avenge 'Beit Hanoun massacre'

Outraged by killing of five family members in Beit Hanoun by IDF shell, Gaza factions pledge to make 'Zionist enemy' pay. 'Even if we attend peace talks, we won't hesitate to kidnap or kill Israelis,' PRC spokesman says

The death of five members of the Abu-Meatak by an IDF shell in Beit Hanoun Monday drew outraged responses and threats from the Palestinian organizations in Gaza that vowed to avenge what they defined as a "Zionist massacre."

 

The shell killed a mother and her four children, as well as a 15-year-old Palestinian teen and a local gunman.

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, saying "it does not serve the efforts to achieve calm and undermines the peace process." Abbas also stressed the need to keep the Palestinian people protected from the consequences of warfare.

 

A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, told Ynet that "the IDF's operation is a dangerous crime and proves the enemy's stupidity. This massacre reflects the Zionist enemy's criminal way of thinking and its efforts to undermine the prospects for a lull and the attempt to bring stability and security to the region."

 

Barhoum added that "the Zionist enemy will pay a heavy price for the massacre in Beit Hanoun. The Zionists will not be safe as long as our children are being killed. We shall continue with the resistance and strike the enemy."

 

Members of the Popular Resistance Committees have also pledged to carry on with their operations against the IDF. "Even while attending peace talks, if we get a chance to kidnap a soldier or kill a Zionist – we will not hesitate to do so," the group's spokesman Muhammad Abed al-Aal told Ynet.

 

"By this action the enemy tried to prove that it is not begging for a lull, while the opposite is in fact true. In any case, no talks could prevent us from attacking the enemy. We will exact a heavy price," he concluded.

 


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