Hadashot television news broadcasts unsourced transcripts from Sunday’s closed cabinet meeting that allege that ministers complained of the media’s coverage of the Gaza border fires.
The alleged complaints come amid growing criticism of the government for failing to stop the daily incendiary kite and balloon attacks that have burned thousands of acres of southern Israeli farmland, forests, and brush.
As the cabinet meeting is closed-door, the purported quotes appear to have been supplied to Hadashot by one of the ministers at the meeting.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz is said to have told his colleagues, “They keep saying ‘Israel is on fire,’ ‘Israel is burning.’ Israel is not burning.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then reportedly replied: “The media reports are overblown. The media is feeding this [perception] and presenting things in a warped way.”
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