The Times of Israel reports: “Top Hamas official Khaled Mashal called on Wednesday for a resumption of suicide bombings in the West Bank, Arabic media reported, and encouraged Palestinians and supporters of the Palestinian cause to engage in ‘actual resistance against the Zionist entity.’

According to Sky News Arabia, during an address at a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Mashaal said that the Hamas terror group wanted to ‘return to [suicide] operations.’

The war with Israel in Gaza, as well as the frequent IDF raids against Palestinian terror entities in the West Bank, could ‘only be addressed by open conflict,’ Mashaal was quoted as having said. ‘They are fighting us with open conflict, and we are confronting them with open conflict.’

‘The enemy has opened the conflict on all fronts, seeking us all, whether we fight or not,’ he said, appearing to refer to the assassination of former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the killing of Haniyeh, who was based in Qatar and had been the head of the terror group’s politburo wing.

‘I repeat my call to everyone to participate on multiple fronts in the actual resistance against the Zionist entity,’ added Mashaal, who had briefly been seen as a frontrunner to replace Haniyeh before the reins were handed over to Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar…”