A lawmaker in the far-right Otzma Yehudit party slams the arrest of a settler suspected of killing a Palestinian in the West Bank, likening him to a Tel Aviv municipal guard killed this evening by a Palestinian terrorist.
“When a patrolman in Tel Aviv kills a terrorist he is met with applause from all the security figures, but when a Jew defends his life in Binyamin before an Arab mob that rose up to kill him, he’s arrested while still injured,” tweets MK Limor Son Har-Melech, using the Hebrew name for the region of the West Bank where the incident took place.
A second settler was also arrested in connection to the shooting yesterday, a former aide to a Knesset member in Otzma Yehudit. The two are due to appear at a remand hearing tonight.
“I advise the security services to direct its forces to deal with the nests of terror instead of chasing after Binyamin residents who hold tight to our land with devotion,” adds Son Har-Melech.
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