Netanyahu, coalition lawmakers slam anti-government demonstrators after Likud MK falls amid protest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and other coalition lawmakers slam anti-government protesters after Likud MK Eli Dallal falls on the ground while passing through a demonstration at an event in Kfar Saba the ruling party held this evening.

Video shows the 70-year-old legislator fall as he makes his way through a crowd blocking the entrance to the event. Speaking with the Ynet news site, Dallal says he “really saw murder in their eyes.”

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“One can argue and demonstrate, but it cannot be that a member of Knesset cannot attend a meeting due to verbal and physical violence. It feels like a lynch, what you see in the video is just the last part of what I went through,” he declares.

Netanyahu’s office says in a statement that the premier spoke with Dallal following the incident, adding that he also called “to bring the attackers to justice and warned against the wild incitement against coalition members.”

The Prime Minister’s Office warns that if “law enforcement authorities do not put an end to these dangerous phenomena, it will end with blood on their hands.”

In a separate statement, Netanyahu’s Likud declares that the “attack was carried out by extremist rioters who operate as violent and unbridled militias in order to silence and intimidate right-wing voters.”

“The next murder is just around the corner,” Likud claims, accusing Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of doing “nothing against the rising tide of violent incitement.”

In a tweet, Ohana complains that “these filthy ‘democratic’ scum are throwing objects at him,” apparently referring to a man dressed like a Qatari who threw fake money on Dalal after he was helped up from the ground.

Blaming Baharav-Miara, Ohana says that she is willing “to legitimize everything just so the government falls.”

Transportation Minister Miri Regev says that “this is not a protest, this is anarchy,” recalling that several weeks ago activists torched dumpsters and tires near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, with the fires accidentally burning an IDF reservist’s car.

She calls on law enforcement to act with “an iron fist” against “rioters.”

Religious Zionism MK Ohad Tal calls the incident “another proof that the next political assassination like that of Charlie Kirk is closer than ever.”