Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing vowed on Wednesday to escalate what it termed the retaliatory attacks on Israel in reaction to the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Palestinians in the West Bank.

"The fedayee (commando) attacks against Zionist targets would escalate amid an escalation of the Zionist terrorism, mainly in Jerusalem and the West Bank," said Abu Obeida, spokesman of Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades.

On Wednesday, 12 Palestinians were injured when armed Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village near the southern West Bank town of Hebron, witnesses and medical sources said.

Abu Obeida, told the group's website "as long as the Zionists escalate their attacks on our people and on holy Jerusalem, our attacks would be escalated too."

He also said that his movement doesn't see any difference between the new government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and the previous governments. "They are all fanatics and terrorists and have been committing crimes."

Since the movement was founded in 1987, its militants have carried out dozens of suicide bombing attacks into Israel that killed hundreds of Israelis. Israel retaliated and killed thousands of Palestinians.

"The Zionist enemy doesn't need justifications in order to implement its crimes and plans that aim at expelling our people out of their lands from allover Palestine," said Abu Obeida.