Education Minister Naftali Bennett accuses Gaza’s Hamas rulers and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of celebrating this morning’s deadly shooting attack in the West Bank.
“While Israel endures terrible sadness, Hamas is handing out candies and Abbas is looking after salaries. We must stop this celebration,” says Bennett in a statement, referring to the PA’s paying of salaries to the families of Palestinian security prisoners.
He also mourns Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi, who were killed in the attack at the Barkan Industrial Zone.
“Like every day, this morning, Ziv and Kim took their children to kindergarten and school, and went to work in the Barkan Industrial Zone. They did not imagine it would be the last time they would see their children. This morning, a cruel terrorist cut their lives short,” adds Bennett, who heads the pro-settlement Jewish Home party.
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