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PNA disgusts at attacks targeting civilians for whatever cause

Xinhua, June 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) said Thursday that it rejects "operations targetting civilians, irrespective of the responsible party and cause."

The statement was made one day after two Palestinian gunmen shot and killed four Israelis and wounded three others in Tel Aviv.

The PNA Presidency said in a statement that it had repeatedly stated its rejection of "all operations that target civilians, no matter who they are, no matter who carried these attacks, and no matter what the justifications are."

The two Palestinian attackers, from the West Bank city of Hebron, were both arrested, with one of them injured.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the shooting, but the Islamic Hamas movement and other militant groups praised the attack, saying it was in retaliation for the daily Israeli violations against Palestinians.

The West Bank's Hamas spokesman said in a press statement that the Tel Aviv attack is a message to Israeli leaders, chiefly the newly-appointed defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, that the intifada, or the uprising against Israelis, continues.

However, the PNA Presidency's statement said that "making peace and creating a positive atmosphere contribute to removing the reasons of tension in the region between the Israelis and the Palestinians." Endit