Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad says shooting 'natural consequence' of settler violence

Hamas said that the deadly shooting in central Israel is a response to “aggression against Gaza and the continued crimes of Judaisation, extrajudicial killings, settlement expansion, raids, and daily attacks against our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem”.

“The occupation - no matter how far it goes in its oppression and crimes - will not succeed in stopping the rise of resistance in the valiant West Bank,” the group said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad said the attack is a "natural consequence of the criminal policies pursued by the war criminal government of the Zionist entity”.