Islamic Jihad: Palestinians not afraid of new Israeli cabinet

Tariq Salmi, the Islamic Jihad spokesman, made the remarks on Sunday, after Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, the most right-wing in the regime's history, was sworn in, according to Arabic-language al-Ahad television network. “In the New Year, we will continue our fight in the occupied cities of Jenin, Quds, Nablus, and the entire West Bank and we will continue until the liberation of al-Quds.”

He said Islamic Jihad fears neither Israel’s “fascist” cabinet nor its military’s threats.

Salmi said the “events of the past year will be remembered and the path of all those Palestinians who were killed will remain an incentive to continue the struggle against the Israeli regime.”

On Thursday, Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister, with his cabinet promising to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and pursue other anti-Palestinian policies. Netanyahu was ousted in June 2021 by a motley coalition of leftists, centrists and Arab parties headed by right-winger Naftali Bennett and former TV news anchor Yair Lapid. It didn’t take him long to come back.