Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came out strongly in a speech on Tuesday against IDF soldiers who raised banners in recent weeks protesting orders to expel Jews from the site of the demolished community of Homesh and from other homes in Judea and Samaria.

Speaking to Navy service members at a base in Haifa, Netanyahu said that refusal of orders destroys the IDF and could cause the collapse of the state. He added "there is no room for disobedience," and vowed "the government will act against it in every way."