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GAZA– Hamas Movement has urged on Tuesday Palestinian resistance factions for self-control, and invited them to remain adherents to the Palestinian national consensus on the truce in the Gaza Strip.

However, the Movement called on all concerned parties in the regional and international arenas to put pressures on the Israeli occupation government in order to stop its crimes against the Palestinian people in the West Bank.

In a written statement he read, and a copy of which obtained by the PIC, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in Gaza Strip, said, “Hamas Movement confirms her adherence to the truce agreement, and calls on all Palestinian resistance factions to abide by what had been agreed-upon nationally”, explaining that Hamas was discussing the truce with Palestinian factions to keep it intact.

Hamas’s remarks came after the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, the Quds Brigades, took the credit for unleashing three home-made missiles at the Israeli settlement of Sderot in retaliation to the IOF troops’ assassination of an Islamic Jihad leader in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday.

In spite of the Islamic Jihad retaliation, the Movement confirmed it was still faithful to the Palestinian national consensus on the truce, explaining that the missile attack was an “exceptional message” to the Israeli occupation government.

Nevertheless, the Islamic Jihad warned it would turn Sderot colony into a ghost city if the IOF aggressions on its cadres in the West Bank persisted.

Israeli military sources confirmed the missile attack on the colony, saying it caused material damage to one of the houses there.

Special units of the IOF troops stormed a students’ dormitory in Nablus city, and killed Islamic Jihad leader Tareq Abu Ghali, and Hamas cadre Iyad Khanfar.

Both of the victims were sleeping at the time of the IOF troops’ attack, local Palestinian sources underlined.

The PA interior ministry in Gaza city condemned the IOF assassination crime against the two Palestinian citizens, but it called on Palestinian resistance factions to respect the national understandings on the calm agreement.