Senior member Itamar Ben Gvir of the Otzma Yehudit Party has responded to the murderous attack that occurred in Gush Etzion by saying, "The response required by the Israeli government and the security cabinet is to return to targeted killings, expel terrorist families and their supporters, and death penalty legislation for terrorists. Only these will deter the wrongdoers and any other demand, such as additional building in Judea and Samaria is a blow to and contempt for intelligence. We defeat terrorism by attack and not by building porches and widening roads."