Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, condemned on Wednesday the Israeli closure of dozens of charities and civil institutions in the West Bank.

During his visit to the ministry of endowments and religious affairs, Haneyya told reporters that the PA leadership and its unconstitutional government in Ramallah is an accomplice in the Israeli war on charitable institutions where the PA had already closed more than 100 charities and orphanages.

The premier described the Israeli closure of about 37 charities and civil institutions in Nablus and Ramallah during the past three days as a "heinous crime against humanity", calling for ending these actions immediately and reopening these institutions which sponsor orphans and needy families.

In a press statement received by the PIC, MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege, condemned the IOF troops for sabotaging and closing charitable and humanitarian institutions in the West Bank, describing what happened as an assault on all values and a new form of the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian people.

For its part, the Islamic Jihad Movement considered that the Israeli assaults on charities in the West Bank a link in the chain of the systematic Israeli criminality against mosques and charitable institutions which sponsor poor families and orphans.

Walid Hillis, the spokesman for the Movement, castigated and questioned the role of the PA and its security apparatuses in the West Bank, saying: "Where is the role of these apparatuses in defending our people and stopping this desecration?"

For its part, the popular front for the liberation of Palestine underscored that the fierce Israeli campaign which targeted humanitarian institutions is a new stage in the comprehensive war waged on the Palestinian people to break their steadfastness.

Zionists’ Campaign Against Charities In West Bank Won't Break Hamas

Hamas Movement has called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to stand up in defense of their properties and charities that had been confiscated and sealed by the IOF troops, vowing to support the West Bank with all possible means.

"The IOF troops targeting of those humanitarian societies was indeed a continuation to the mission of the PA security forces in the West Bank with the aim to exterminate Hamas Movement in the West Bank", asserted Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the Movement's spokesman in Gaza Strip.

But he underlined that the IOF troops' mission would fail like all previous campaigns they carried out against the Movement in the West Bank, urging the PA leadership to break up security coordination with the Israeli security departments.

Abu Zuhri also urged all concerned parties to immediately intervene to bridle the Israeli practices against those benevolent societies because "Hamas won't just allow those crimes to pass [unpunished]".

The Movement also urged Palestinian resistance factions and the Palestinian people in the West Bank to block the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people, pledging not to spare any effort to protect and defend them.

"Those societies were helping the misfortunate Palestinian families who were ignored by those who are receiving billions of dollars but spending them on the PA security forces with the aim to fight the Palestinian resistance; yet, what made bad worse was the participation of the PA security forces in the Israeli campaign against those charities", underlined Abu Zuhri.

Moreover, Abu Zuhri emphasized that the IOF troops were attacking those societies believing they belong to Hamas, which is, he said, not true because those societies were owned by the entire Palestinian people.

"They [detractors of Hamas] will not succeed because Hamas is the entire Palestinian people and not a group of societies or commercial stores; so, who ever wants to exterminate Hamas must exterminate the entire Palestinian people first, which is an impossible mission", Abu Zuhri highlighted.