Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds to two incidents on Monday in which Druze residents of the Golan Heights attacked IDF ambulances carrying injured Syrians, killing one.
“I view this with utmost gravity. We will not allow anyone to take the law into their hands,” Netanyahu says at a cybersecurity conference in Tel Aviv. “We will not allow anyone to hinder IDF soldiers in their mission. We will locate those who perpetrated this lynch and we will deal with them to the fullest extent of the law.”
Netanyahu calls on leaders of the Druze community, “a splendid community with whom we have a brotherly bond, citizens of the State of Israel,” to push for calm and to entreat their coreligionists to “respect the law, respect IDF soldiers and do not take law into your hands.”
It wasn’t clear who perpetrated the lynching, or whether they were citizens of the State of Israel. The vast majority of Syrian Druze living in the Golan Heights do not have Israeli citizenship.
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