The Zionist occupation forces have closed off the entrances to the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank and sent in military reinforcements following a shooting incident that left several Zionist soldiers injured.
The occupation confirmed that the attack took place on Route 55, west of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, and injured three soldiers. According to Israeli media, the assailants managed to flee the scene unscathed. The shots were fired from a speeding car that subsequently left for an unknown destination.
This attack marks the third shooting incident in the northern West Bank since the early hours of Thursday. Earlier, Palestinian Resistance forces carried out two other shooting attacks targeting occupation forces and military positions in Nablus.
The first attack occurred at the Beit Furik military checkpoint east of Nablus, while the second targeted a military camp on Mount Gerizim, south of the city.
Zionist officer dies from wounds sustained days earlier
In a statement released early this morning, the al-Quds Brigades – Balata Battalion claimed responsibility for the shooting at the military position on Mount Gerizim, stating that they had opened fire on a number of soldiers.
The occupation announced earlier Captain Ariel Topaz, a 24-year-old officer from the settlement of Pardes Hana, northwest of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, has died from injuries sustained in a car-ramming attack outside a military base in central occupied Palestine earlier this month.
The attack, which took place on July 14 at the Nir Tzvi junction, left Topaz and three other off-duty soldiers seriously wounded.
The injuries were a result of a dual vehicle-ramming and shooting operation. According to initial reports from July 14, the Zionist Red Magen David – the occupation’s emergency service – stated that three settlers, including two soldiers, were injured during the attack.
Captain Topaz was an officer in the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Research Department.
This incident is part of a series of ongoing operations targeting soldiers and settlers in various parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, taking place amid ongoing violence in the West Bank, and the genocidal war on Gaza, including the recent massacres committed by the occupation forces in the Mawasi Khan Younis area and the al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.
Below we publish statements from several Resistance factions.
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The West Bank Will Be a Permanent Nightmare for Occupation Soldiers and Settlers
The Popular Front commends the heroic shooting operation on a settler’s car north of the West Bank and confirms that it delivered a strong blow to all the occupation’s measures and the threats of its leaders.
– The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine commends the heroic shooting operation on a settler’s car north of the occupied West Bank, which resulted in various injuries among the settlers.
– This operation delivered a new strong blow to all the occupation’s security measures in the occupied West Bank, and it sent challenging messages to the leaders of the occupation that your threats to eradicate the resistance have failed. The resistance continues to carry out qualitative operations and continues to drain the occupation soldiers and settlers, despite all forms of pressure and assassinations faced by the fighters.
– The occupied West Bank will be a daily and permanent nightmare for the occupation and settlers throughout the West Bank, and the pace of resistance will escalate more and more in the coming days.
– The resistance in the West Bank is witnessing unprecedented widespread popular and national support, with extensive field unity and coordination between all fighters and the various military formations of the resistance factions to confront the crimes of the occupation.
– The escalation of qualitative operations in the West Bank confirms that the resistance is not just a reaction to the crimes of the occupation and the policy of assassinations; rather, it is a strategic choice for our people.
– The blood of the martyrs will fuel the continuation of the resistance and the escalation of qualitative operations against the cowardly enemy.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
25-July-2024
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
We bless the heroic shooting operation that resulted in the injury of several zionist settlers in northern occupied West Bank, as it comes within the framework of our people’s natural and continuous responses to the zionist enemy’s crimes in Palestine.
This heroic operation represents a new security blow to the enemy’s security and intelligence apparatus, and it proves that there is no safety for a zionist occupier on our land.
This operation reflects the growing state of revolution among our people in response to the continuous zionist aggression against them everywhere, especially the genocide massacres committed by the fascist entity’s government in Gaza.
The operation confirms once again that our people are determined to resist, and the enemy’s attempts and plans to break their will and determination to resist and seek liberation will not succeed.
We renew our call to all the masses of our people and all fighters and resisters everywhere to escalate the resistance and intifada against the criminal zionist enemy and its settler herds who are exterminating our people in Gaza, spreading corruption on the land, and desecrating our sanctities.
Palestinian Mujahideen Movement
Media Office
Thursday, 19 Muharram 1446 AH
Corresponding to 25 July 2024
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The heroic shooting operation east of Qalqilya is a natural response to the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and the violations committed by the occupation army and settler gangs in the West Bank and Al-Quds.
The heroic shooting operation carried out by our people’s brave resistance fighters near the town of Azzun east of Qalqilya this morning, which resulted in the injury of three soldiers, is a natural response to the crimes and massacres of the occupation in the Gaza Strip. It is a fiery message to the criminal zionist Ben-Gvir, indicating that settler attacks in Al-Aqsa Mosque and throughout the West Bank will not go unpunished.
The continuation and escalation of resistance operations in the West Bank, and the steadfastness of our people and their valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip in the face of the comprehensive genocide being waged by the new Nazis against them, affirm that all attempts to undermine this people and their resistance will fail. Our people are determined to achieve their freedom, reclaim their land and sanctities, and confront the barbarity of the occupation army and settler gangs until they are expelled from our blessed land and we achieve our complete and undiminished rights.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
Thursday: 19 Muharram 1446 AH
Corresponding to: July 25, 2024 CE
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The heroic and daring shooting operation carried out by fighters from our people east of Qalqilya this Thursday morning, came as a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and in the context of the ongoing struggle and confrontation with it.
Our Palestinian people, in all places of their presence in the occupied land, will continue to resist the occupation until its defeat and the achievement of our people’s goals of liberation and return.
We bless this heroic operation and affirm that it comes as a natural response to the crimes of the occupation against our people and our holy sites.
We in the Fatah Al-Intifada Movement call on our people to continue confronting the occupation and salute the steadfastness and resistance of our people in Gaza.
It is a revolution until victory.
Fatah Al-Intifada Movement – Occupied Palestine.
25-7-2024