Knesset Member Yoav Kish responded to Minister Yisrael Katz's comments: "The same question remains - who is the sovereign of Khan Al Ahmar, the State of Israel or the European Union? The Israeli court or the Hague Tribunal? Because the Israeli court and the State of Israel decided to evacuate.
"As Ben Gurion once said, 'It doesn't matter what the gentiles say, it matters what the Jews do.'"