Following an incident yesterday morning, during a police operation enforcing a court order to demolish several buildings in the southern Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev region, in which a police officer was killed after being hit by a vehicle that was driven by a local resident of the village who was then shot dead by other policemen on the scene; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video in which he emphasized that Israel was a law-abiding country in which there will be equal enforcement of the law, while stressing that the murderous phenomena which plagues the Jewish state as well as other parts of the world with vehicular ramming attacks would not deter the country but would strengthen Jerusalem’s resilience to enforce its laws.
“This is the second car ramming attack we are experiencing in just a few days. We are fighting the murderous phenomena which plagues Israel as well as the rest of the world. The state of Israel above all is a law-abiding country, there will be equal enforcement, not only does this event not deter us it strengthens us and strengthens our resilience to enforce the law everywhere,” said Israel’s head of state.
Prime Minister Netanyahu also took the opportunity to urge Arab-Israeli lawmakers, whom took part in the violent clashes that followed yesterday’s incident in the southern Bedouin village to halt fueling the Arab sector against the Jewish state, emphasizing that the Bedouin sector was an integral part of Israel’s society, while stressing that the police operations, which were following the directives of Israel’s Supreme Court, have a duty to follow the tasks bestowed upon them and that no one has the right “to interfere with their work.”
“I can ask all of you, especially Knesset member in Israel to be responsible and stop fueling impulses and the incitement to violence. The Bedouin population is a part of us and we want incorporate them in our society, not infringe them and push them away from the center of our lives. Police forces are working on the ground with authority and authorization, no one has the right to interfere with their work,” emphasized Netanyahu.