Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - " Hamas " movement welcomed, on Monday, the efforts of the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process, Tor Winsland, aimed at stopping the Israeli aggression against the people of the West Bank.

Well-informed sources told Al-Quds.com that Wensland is leading efforts to reduce security tension and work to stop it, and to hold meetings in Jenin and Nablus in this regard.

In a press statement, Jihad Taha, Hamas spokesman, called on Winsland to condemn and criminalize the Israeli violations and work to submit recommendations to the competent authorities in the United Nations to stop these crimes, and to hold the occupation leaders accountable for their continuous violations against the Palestinian people, land and sanctities.

Taha also called on the United Nations to take effective and urgent action towards stopping the aggression in the occupied West Bank, and to continue the occupation’s siege and closure of the entrances to cities, towns and camps, by imposing a policy of collective punishment on hundreds of thousands of our people, in flagrant violation of the most basic standards of international law.

For his part, Hazem Qassem, spokesman for the movement, said in another press statement that the continuation of the closure, the siege and the policy of collective punishment imposed by the occupation on the city of Nablus, for the seventh day in a row, is nothing but an expression of the state of impotence and failure experienced by the security system of the occupation, in the face of resistance. And the escalating uprising of our people throughout the occupied West Bank.

He added, "All the occupation's crimes, including siege, repression, incursions, and killing, will not intimidate the masses of our people into continuing their resistance, nor will they succeed in breaking their will and their quest to protect their land and sanctities, and to wrest their freedom and independence." like he said.