hql Hibernate insert query returning unexpected token: INSERT -

i new hibernate trying insert data table using hql. below code. when in run code getting below exception. tried googling wrote code in same way. guess missing in code

configuration conf = new configuration();         conf.configure("hibernate.cfg.xml");          sessionfactory factory = conf.buildsessionfactory();          session session = factory.opensession();         transaction txn = session.begintransaction();         query qry = session.createquery("insert item (username, age, id)"+" select e.username, e.age, e.id employee e ");          //qry.setparameter(0, 1);         int res = qry.executeupdate();         txn.commit(); 

exception:

exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.hql.ast.querysyntaxerror: unexpected token: insert near line 1, column 1 [insert item (username, age, id)  caused by: line 1:1: unexpected token: insert