(Turkey) For weeks, Hamas has opined to the world that the reason they started lobbing missiles into Israel was in response to how Israel had been locking up Hamas operatives in the West bank over their search for Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha over the murders of 3 Israeli teens killed in cold blood in June. The media has jumped to their beat by implying the innocence of Hamas.
Rocket fire from militants in Gaza and Israeli air strikes on the territory increased after the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in June, which Israel blamed on Hamas and which led to a crackdown on the group in the West Bank. Hamas denied being behind the killings.
To Hamas, the clampdown seemed politically motivated to eradicate its presence in the West Bank. The available evidence suggests that the kidnapping had not been authorised by Hamas' political leadership but seemed to be the work of members of a powerful Hebron clan, with a history of carrying out rogue attacks in opposition to the Hamas leadership.
Well, guess what, Hamas has finally admitted in Turkey that yes, they sanctioned the murders of 3 Israeli children. At a conference of Islamic clerics in Turkey, senior Hamas official Salah al-Aruri praised the "heroic action of the Kassam Brigades who kidnapped three settlers in Hebron."
Rocket fire from militants in Gaza and Israeli air strikes on the territory increased after the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in June, which Israel blamed on Hamas and which led to a crackdown on the group in the West Bank. Hamas denied being behind the killings.
To Hamas, the clampdown seemed politically motivated to eradicate its presence in the West Bank. The available evidence suggests that the kidnapping had not been authorised by Hamas' political leadership but seemed to be the work of members of a powerful Hebron clan, with a history of carrying out rogue attacks in opposition to the Hamas leadership.
Well, guess what, Hamas has finally admitted in Turkey that yes, they sanctioned the murders of 3 Israeli children. At a conference of Islamic clerics in Turkey, senior Hamas official Salah al-Aruri praised the "heroic action of the Kassam Brigades who kidnapped three settlers in Hebron."
