Hamas blasts PA for blocking attack on Israeli troops in West Bank

Hamas has issued a statement criticising the Palestinian Authority (PA), after PA forces detonated an explosive before it hit Israeli troops in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

Hamas said on Thursday morning that the PA's "escalating campaign to pursue the fighters of the resistance, confiscate their weapons, and dismantle explosive devices and ambushes set up to strike [the Israeli military] during its continued incursions into the West Bank are in perfect accordance with the Zionist occupation".