Osama Hamadan, senior spokesperson of Hamas, has told Al Jazeera, that they are not attacking civilians.
Rights groups like Amnesty International, have pointed out that Israeli civilians had been killed by Hamas.
“You have to differentiate between settlers and civilians. Settlers attacked Palestinians…We hope that Amnesty has international humility to send us more developed weapons to attack just only the soldiers,” Hamdan said.
Asked whether civilians in southern Israel were also considered settlers, Hamdan said: “Everyone knows there are settlements there.”
“We are not targeting civilians on purpose. We have declared settlers are part of the occupation and part of the armed Israeli force. They are not civilians,” he added.
Hamas’s operation came on the heels of the killing of widespread Israeli settler attacks, increased tensions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem and a record number of Palestinians killed.

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