Hamas claims killing of four Israeli settlers in West Bank
‘ This is a terrorist attack , told AFP spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the Israeli police . Shortly after , in Gaza , the Ezzedine Al -Qassam, the armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas, claimed responsibility , full responsibility for this heroic operation . “
According to ambulance services, the victims are a couple of forties and another couple aged about twenty years . One woman was pregnant, the military said. The car in which they were traveling was fired upon on a road between Kiryat Arba and the Palestinian village of Bani Naim , near the town of Hebron . This route is particularly popular with settlers from the region, in an area where tensions are running high among Palestinians and recurrent and Jewish settlers .
WELCOMES THE HAMAS ATTACK
This incident one of the most serious in recent months in the West Bank came as direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians , suspended since late 2008 , to resume Thursday in Washington under the aegis of the president Barack Obama.
Posted: August 31st, 2010 under US Stock Market.