Channel 12 news reports quotes from a fiery exchange between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar during last night’s security cabinet meeting, over a deadly riot by extremist settlers in the West Bank village of Jit last week.
“Have we made any arrests?” Netanyahu reportedly asks, to which Bar replies, “Two.”
“Why only two? Why not more?” the prime minister asks.
Bar responds, “That’s the role of the police. There’s no police in Israel.”
The report comes a day after Channel 12 published quotes from a letter in which Bar warned Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other ministers that Jewish terror carried out by violent settlers is doing “indescribable damage” to Israel.
While four Jewish suspects have been detained in connection with the riot in Jit last week where Palestinian authorities said a man was killed, indictments in such cases are rare and convictions even more so, in what has led the US and other Western countries to begin sanctioning Israeli settler extremists earlier this year.
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