Hamas Speaks
14th March 2011
In English, Hamas denies responsibility for the murders and distances itself from them:Palestinian National Movement Hamas official Ezzat Al-Rashak said that the movement is not responsible for the murder of the five family members from the Itamar settlement.
The message in Arabic, however, is quite different. As translated by Al Mutarjim, Hamas wrote, in part: Five Zionist usurpers were killed the morning of Saturday, 12 March 2011, in a knife-stabbing carried out by a Palestinian in the usurper (settlement) of Itamar east of the city of Nablus.