'Only a smokescreen': Hamas condemns rising settler violence, Ben-Gvir's treatment of prisoners

Hamas on Sunday condemned the escalating settler violence in the West Bank, claiming it to be part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "genocidal war" against Palestinians in a statement shared on the terrorist group's English-language Telegram channel.

"War criminal Netanyahu, who spearheaded the genocidal war against our people in Gaza, is pursuing the same criminal approach in the West Bank by giving colonial-settlers free rein to escalate their organized terrorism, as an extension of his policies of killing, displacement, and ethnic cleansing," Hamas wrote in its statement.