Member of Knesset Tamar Zandberg (Democrati Union) has criticized Minister Bezalel Smotrich's definition of the attack on Golani soldiers by hilltop youth as "a serious and illegal civil protest".
Writing on Twitter, Zandberg said, "I did not fall out of the chair at the representative of the hilltop's political arm being forgiving of their violence in the territories. This violence is one of the disgraceful fruits of the occupation that Smutritz and his friends insist on strengthening, as is the double language of the wild west that they are hiding in the territories. The comparison with the Ethiopian protest has nerve and is unfounded."