Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas condemn killing of senior PIJ leader

We reported earlier that Israeli forces shot and killed a man during a raid in the town of Tammun in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group has identified him as Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat and told Al Jazeera that he was one of its senior members “treacherously assassinated" by Israel.

In a statement, Hamas condemned the killing of Bisharat, a senior PIJ member previously jailed by Israel.

“As we mourn the martyred freed prisoner Ra’iq Abdul Rahman Bisharat […], we affirm that our people and their resistance will not rest until the occupation is expelled from our land and holy sites,” Al Jazeera reported Hamas as saying.

Hamas said that Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks in the occupied West Bank "compels us all to unite".