“The decision of israeli occupation's outgoing Minister of War, Benny Gantz, to build a new section of the Apartheid Wall between the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, all the way to Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank emphasizes that colonization is a common practice for the occupation's leadership, be that left or right, to commit racist crimes against our Palestinian people,” Jihad Taha said and added: “Hamas rejects and condemns this decision in the strongest possible terms and considers it an extension of the occupation's seizure policy and Judaization of Palestinian lands.”

Taha underlined that “such decisions place pressure on the international community and human rights organizations to shoulder the responsibility to condemn these racist occupation policies and to work hard to end the occupation and support the right of the Palestinian people to liberation, return, and self-determination.” (ILKHA)