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Friday, July 19, 2024
Likud MK appears to mock victim of Houthi drone attack
Likud MK Nissim Vaturi speaks during a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on the ultra-Orthodox draft law at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Far-right Likud MK Nissim Vaturi appears to mock the victim of the overnight drone strike in Tel Aviv.
“I don’t know who he is, but if there is someone in his family who has protested [against the government this will probably serve as a wake-up call]. They must be asking themselves: how can I protest now that a member of my family has been killed?” Vaturi tells the 102-FM radio channel.
Vaturi appears to be suggesting that the victim or his family members had attended anti-government protests because he had been living in liberal-leaning Tel Aviv.
Yevgeny Ferder, 50, was killed when the Houthi drone fell near the Momo Hostel where he worked.
There is no evidence thus far that he or his family attended anti-government protests.
