Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requests of Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein to examine the punitive measures that may be used against the Joint (Arab) List MKs who visited the families of Palestinian terrorists, Tal Shalev, a diplomatic correspondent for i24 News reports.
Earlier, the Zionist Union issues a statement saying that the visit by the MKs from the Joint List encouraged the continuation of terror and the murder innocent people.
MKs from the Joint List met with relatives of Palestinian terrorists killed by Israeli security forces as they were carrying out attacks, including the relatives of terrorists who murdered Israelis in the recent wave of terror attacks.
A Palestinian organization representing the “families of shahids” invited all lawmakers from the Joint List, a list comprising all Arab parties in the Knesset, to meet in Jerusalem. Three MKs from Balad, one of the parties comprising the list, showed up for the meeting.
According to Israeli media sources, the three MKs, Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka and Basel Ghattas met the parents of the murderers a day before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hosted them in his Ramallah office.
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