Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan responded to the boy's wounding near Yitzhar by Arabs, "another serious incident at harvest.
"If time and time again our residents are harmed by the possibility that the Arabs will be allowed to harvest near Israeli communities, consider stopping the harvest near the communities. This incident could have ended completely differently. Provocations and violence against settlers became a daily occurrence at harvest. I demand the mayor of Huwwara who led the riot be brought to justice and to re-examine the whole issue of harvest near the communities."