Lebanese media outlet Al Mayadeen reported that Hezbollah issued a statement describing the Hebron shooting, which resulted in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers, as a "natural and legitimate response" to the "Zionist enemy's [Israel's] ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people." In the same incident, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. Hezbollah also condemned Israel's expansion of illegal settlements, demolition of homes, and land clearing in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.