Hamas urges Palestinians in West Bank to storm Israeli targets, emulate Oct. 7 massacre

Since the Oct. 7 surprise attack by the Hamas terror organization, its leaders have not stopped calling for Palestinians to emulate the massacre against Jews living in Judea and Samaria, known as the West Bank.

Hamas’ student organization, the Islamic Bloc, which runs a branch in the West Bank, has been particularly active on social media, where it is urging Palestinians to storm Israeli targets wherever they can reach them.

On Nov. 16, the Islamic Bloc posted a message inciting West Bank Palestinians to storm Israeli locations, referring to them all as “settlements.”

“The settlements are our targets. Let us storm them, [operating] singly or in groups, and let them taste the might of our resistance. #To the settlements.”

Apart from incitement, the Islamic Bloc’s Telegram channel provides users with detailed instructions on how to carry out effective terrorist attacks.

Two days later the Hamas student organization posted threats with the words: “Ambushes of death await you” and two days after that, “Most of our resistance fighters are lying in wait for you. The [West] Bank is not a playground for the settlers.”

The incitement was accompanied by graphics depicting terrorists breaking through the security fence in Judea and Samaria.

Analysts warn of a real concern that the same type of surprise attack on southern Israel border communities on Oct. 7 could be repeated in the West Bank, but also extend into central Israel.

The massacre was celebrated by the Fatah movement, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The movement’s terror wing, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, threatened to commit even more terror acts against Israelis, with Brigades spokesman Abu Muhammad thanking Allah for the massacre and for “humiliating and defeating the Zionists.”

His statement signaled that the Brigades were fighting “together with the rest of the resistance factions.”

Senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki also thanked the Hamas terror group for the massacre during a TV program just one week later, on Oct. 14, in which he appeared with Osama Hamdan of the Hamas political bureau.

During the show, Hamdan said Hamas was ready to repeat the massacre, with Zaki in the West Bank, saying, “Inshallah, in the near future it will indeed happen in the West Bank.”

“After October 7, there has been a Palestinian revival,” Zaki said. “The time has come for a united front that is capable of defeating the Americans, who use the Israelis as a proxy to accomplish their goals. We are certain that the future is ours. if he [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] begins to crush Gaza, the skulls of all the Jews and Americans in the region will be crushed.

“I am pleased with Osama Hamdan. We are friends,” Zaki continued. “We understand each other. Victory has been promised to us."

The ruse by Hamas, how it prepared [for the attack], and how it accomplished this victory – I believe that people will emulate this, It may happen [in the West Bank]. If they want to slaughter the entire Palestinian people, they will be the ones slaughtered,” the senior Fatah official added.