Far-right MK defends assault of Arab Israelis after they accidentally entered West Bank outpost

Far-right MK Limor Son Har-Melech defends an incident over the weekend when settlers assaulted a group of Arab Israelis and torched their car after they accidentally drove into an illegal West Bank outpost.

“We are not talking about an Israeli family,” the Otzma Yehudit lawmaker claims, speaking to the Knesset Law, Constitution and Justice Committee.

“In Judea and Samaria the threat is under your home,” she says, referring to the biblical name for the West Bank. “When a car with non-Israeli license plates drives in, there are no compromises.”

“While there is the possibility this is an innocent incident, there is also the chance it is a spying incident, an attempt to gather information. You can’t ignore that,” she says.

Five Arab Israelis were attacked and their car was set on fire Friday after they accidentally drove into Givat Ronen, a small hilltop outpost in the northern West Bank near the village of Burin, an area that has seen repeated clashes between extremist settlers and Palestinians. Israeli settlers are suspected of carrying out the attack.

The car was carrying four women and a 3-year-old girl, according to Hebrew media reports.