DHAKA: Hamas called on the Palestinians to initiate wide-scale attacks on West Bank settlers and to start conflict with Israel following the death of Sa’ad Dawabhse in a hospital in Beersheba on Saturday.

Dawabshe, 32, died after most of his body was burned in an arson attack on his home last Friday in the West Bank village of Duma in which his 18-month-old son Ali was killed.

Jewish terrorists are suspected in the attack.

‘Sa’ad Dawabshe’s death, the father of the baby (Ali), demonstrates the enormity of the Zionists’ crime against this family, the result being that resistance in the West Bank has become an obligation and a means of self-defense,’ Hamas spokesperson Husam Badran said, reports Jerusalem Post.

‘The murderous settlers will not be deterred unless we initiate attacks - do not wait for them to arrive in our villages and towns,’ he urged.

‘We have no other option but for a general confrontation with the occupation, without waiting for a decision or the granting of permission from anyone,’ he added.

The Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabshe was killed and three members of his family were injured in the arson that is believed to have been started by Jewish terrorists. No suspects have yet been arrested for the attack.

Dawabshe’s wife Riham and his four year old son Ahmed were being treated for their wounds at Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv.

Dr Moti Klein, chief of the intensive care unit at Soroka, said that Sa’ad suffered serious wounds to 80 percent of his body and that he was operated on a number of times by doctors of the hospital’s burn unit.

‘The staff at the hospital fought for his life, but over the past few days, his condition deteriorated,’ Klein said.

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