Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded on Sunday morning to the ongoing terror wave in Jerusalem.
“Rocks and firebombs are deadly weapons. They kill and have killed, and so in recent days we have changed the rules for police officers opening fire in Jerusalem. Over the weekend they already used new means under the new regulations, and hit rock and firebomb terrorists. Today, we will allow a further expansion of the police officers’ abilities to thwart rock and firebomb terror, and we will continue to attack rioters... Whoever attacks us, we will attack you.”
“We cannot accept the principle that in Jerusalem our capital, or in any other part of the State of Israel, in the Galilee or in the Negev, people will organize nationalistic terror and will start throwing bombs at trucks on the road, or rocks that kill people… We will determine minimum punishment for rock and firebomb terrorists.”