PFLP/Hamas claim responsibility for anti-occupation op
Also, senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Resheq categorically denied any ties between the three young men who carried out the operation and the ISIS terror group, affirming that two of them were from the PFLP and one from Hamas.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has mourned the three Palestinian young men who were killed by Israeli soldiers after they carried out a commando operation in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') on Friday.
In a statement, the PFLP affirmed that two of those young men were its members, describing them as ex-detainees Baraa Ibrahim Atta, 18, and Osama Ahmed Atta, 19.
The PFLP said the operation was in retaliation to Israel’s crimes and its practices against the Islamic holy sites.
In a related context, senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Resheq categorically denied any ties between the three young men who carried out the operation and the ISIS terror group, affirming that two of them were from the PFLP and one from Hamas.
Resheq said the Israeli intelligence was being behind the fabricated news saying that the ISIS claimed responsibility for the operation.
He stressed that the operation was one of the individual initiatives made by the Palestinian people in their intifada (uprising) against Israel’s assaults on the holy sites, especially the Aqsa Mosque.