Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades announced its responsibility for an attack on a group of illegal Israeli settlers near the West Bank city of Tulkarm. 

The Resistance operation took place on Tuesday near the Palestinian town of Ramin, in which Resistance fighters fired guns at three settlers in a car at the Ramin junction. The three settlers were wounded and evacuated to receive medical treatment. 

Al-Qassam said its fighters in the West Bank were able to execute the operation and safely withdraw, a feat rarely achieved in the occupied territory, due to the heavy presence of Israeli occupation forces. 

Hamas' military wing said that the announcement comes as an affirmation that the operation was conducted as "revenge for the blood of the martyrs."

It added that the operation was executed in the context of the Resistance's continuous "response to the Zionist massacres in the Gaza Strip, the occupation's crimes in the occupied West Bank, and the violations practices against (Palestinian) detainees in its Nazi prisons."

Addressing illegal Israeli settlers and usurpers in the occupied West Bank, al-Qassam Brigades said that settlers "will only see death, bullets, and gunpowder" from Resistance fighters in the West Bank.

It also pointed to the advanced improvised explosive devices (IEDs), recently deployed by Resistance fighters in Tubas, Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nablus. 

It said that these IEDs, which it claimed responsibility for producing, will continue to target occupation forces as long as the occupation of the West Bank persists.

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Resistance factions continue to confront occupation forces

On the other hand, Israeli occupation forces launched a manhunt in search of the Resistance fighters who carried out the operation. 

They intensified their raid on Tulkarm and Tubas in the past two days, as the search for the fighters continues. 

Wide-scale raids across a number of towns and cities in the West Bank were conducted since early morning hours. Resistance fighters opened fire on the raiding Israeli occupation forces and targeted them with several IEDs.

In the city of Tubas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's (PIJ) al-Quds Brigades - Tubas Brigade and its groups in al-Far'a announced that they ambushed an enemy infantry group early this morning.

The al-Quds Brigade - Tulkarm Brigade also said that it shot down an Israeli drone that was surveying the Nur Shams refugee camp on Wednesday. 

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