The leaders of both Arab Knesset parties cause outrage by making controversial remarks in the Knesset plenum.
MK Ayman Odeh, head of the predominantly Arab Hadash-Ta’al party, is ordered out of the plenum entirely for shouting, “The terrorist is you” toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas speaks from the podium as coalition members heckle him, saying: “You want to stop the war.”
Abbas retorts: “Of course I want to stop the war. Fifty thousand citizens have been murdered in the Gaza Strip.” The Hebrew word for “citizens” used by Abbas could also mean “civilians.”
Even according to the latest death toll by Hamas authorities in the Strip, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians, the number of people killed in the Strip during the war is 38,794.
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana orders Abbas to step down from the podium, as other angry MKs yell at him.
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