Israel National News reports: “Both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad welcomed Friday’s terrorist attack near Otniel, in which terrorists ambushed a family vehicle and sprayed it with bullets, killing two people.

In a statement, Hamas praised what it called the ‘heroic operation carried out by the resistance south of Hevron.’

The attack, said the terrorist organization, ‘represents a qualitative development in the Al-Quds Intifada. It proves that the resistance can deter the occupation, which only understands the language of force’.

Similarly, the Islamic Jihad said that the attack was a response to ‘the crime committed by the occupation in the Hevron hospital yesterday’, a reference to the IDF’s operation to apprehend a wanted terrorist who was in a hospital in Hevron. The terrorist’s cousin was killed during the operation after he resisted arrest.

In Friday’s attack, Arab terrorists opened fire on the vehicle of the victims, killing a 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son…”