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At news conference in Gaza, Palestinian terror groups, including Hamas, say IDF operation in Judea and Samaria “has failed in deterring our resistance” •

We stand by any effort to free Palestinian prisoners, terror groups pledge

.Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

via Israel Hayom | Terror groups: We won’t stand ‘handcuffed’ during IDF operation.

Palestinian terrorist groups, including Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said on Tuesday they will not stand “handcuffed” during Israel’s ongoing military operation in Judea and Samaria.

Israel holds Hamas responsible for the kidnapping of three Israeli teens near Hebron last Thursday.

While neither claiming nor denying responsibility, Hamas has said that the kidnapping was a justified response to the plight of thousands of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.

Following the kidnapping, the Israeli military launched Operation Brother’s Keeper, conducting house-to-house searches and carrying out interrogations and arrests in Hebron and other parts of Judea and Samaria.

At a news conference in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian terror groups said the Israeli military operation “had failed in deterring our resistance.”

“We support and stand by any Palestinian effort of resistance exerted in order to free the hero prisoners who are launching a battle in the face of the occupier by their empty stomach against an enemy and an occupier that had only understood the language of force,” an unidentified man wearing a mask said during the news conference.

Signatories to the statement include the armed wings of Hamas, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, and the Popular Resistance Committees, as well as the Islamist Tempest and the Sword of Islam.

Hamas and other terrorist groups have in the past seized Israelis to trade for jailed Palestinians.

Scores of Palestinian prisoners are currently on a hunger strike to protest against being held by Israel without charges.

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