Right-wing opposition figures respond to the shooting attack on a bus transporting soldiers in the Jordan Valley, in which seven Israelis were hurt.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu says he is praying for the recovery of those hurt and voices support for Israeli forces.
“Only a strong hand will beat terror,” he says in a statement.
A member of Netanyahu’s Likud party blames Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, claiming the demolition of illegal Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and meetings the latter held with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas encouraged terror.
“Those who spend all day persecuting Jews and destroying settlement, hosting with great honor at his home one who pays salaries to despicable terrorists, and gives hope to terror, shouldn’t be surprised that they feel sure they can carry out dozens of attacks,” MK Shlomo Karhi tweets.
He adds: “All of us are paying the price of this lawlessness of Gantz and Lapid, in body and soul.”
Far-right Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich also lashes out at Gantz, tweeting that he “failed in his principal mission to provide security to Israeli citizens.”
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