Asked to comment on flurry of settler attacks, Likud MK responds, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’

Likud MK Keti Shitrit is asked during a Knesset Channel interview to comment on the ongoing flurry of settler attacks in the West Bank against the backdrop of the IDF chief of staff’s condemnation of the largely phenomenon on Wednesday.

“I’m sorry to tell you that I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Shitrit responds to a surprised interviewer, who notes that the topic has been all over the news.

“I don’t know what incident the IDF chief of staff was referring to. We’re so busy all the time with different pieces of news. It’s possible that I missed it,” she adds before pointing to a report she says she recently read about Palestinians destroying farmlands in the West Bank so that area settlers have nowhere to graze their cattle.

Asked if she heard about the weekend killing of two young Palestinian children and their parents by Israeli forces who allege that the car the family was in sped at their direction, Shitrit responds, “No. I have no idea. Don’t ask me questions about topics that I’m not familiar with and din’t see or hear about.”

"לא יודעת על מה את מדברת" – ח"כ קטי שטרית במענה לשאלה על המשפחה הפלסטינית שנהרגה מירי צה"ל בתחילת השבוע: "זה חיילים, הם שומרים עלייך ועליי"

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While not being familiar with the incident in the West Bank village of Tammun, the Likud lawmaker insists that it will be investigated.”

“But these are soldiers. They’re protecting you and I,” Shitrit adds.

“I heard one of the military reporters say that the biggest danger to Israel isn’t Iran or Lebanon, rather the Arabs living in East Jerusalem and [the West Bank],” she says.

Shitrit then points out that many Israeli rights activists living along the Gaza border were not spared during Hamas’s October 7 attack, even though they had spent years trying to help civilians in the Strip.

The reporter hits back, asking what this has to do with the topic at hand.

“If the soldiers [in the Tammun] did something, it apparently was necessary,” Shitrit responded.