Bennett defends call for lethal force against Gaza arsonists

Education Minister Naftali Bennett defends his statement yesterday in which he called to use lethal force against against Palestinians launching incendiary devices from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.

After Housing Minister Yoav Galant slammed Bennett for calling to “shoot an eight-year-old child,” Bennett tweets: “if someone shoots at your family, you shoot at him… if someone sends burning and exploding balloons, you shoot at him.

It is so obvious that I find it hard to believe that I need to explain,” he says.

Bennett later posts photos of a group of Palestinians involved in the launching of incendiary balloons, saying: “They are not eight-year-old children. They are trying to kill our eight-year-old children.”

הם לא ילדים בני 8.
הם מחבלים שמנסים לרצוח את ילדינו בני ה-8.
הבא להורגך, השכם להורגו. pic.twitter.com/DkAQTxJqcc

— Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) June 20, 2018