The chairman of Otzma Yehudit, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, attacked the destruction of the Ben Eliyahu family vineyard in Binyamin and sought to convey a strong message to the Prime Minister.
In a special statement he made, together with MK Limor Son Har-Melech, who was assaulted at the scene of the incident, Ben Gvir said: "We did not sign up for this. We joined the government based on the Prime Minister's promise that it would be a fully right-wing government."
"Such a government should not avoid evacuating Khan al-Ahmar or touching buildings in eastern Jerusalem because of political considerations. A full-right right-wing government cannot be a government at the expense of the rights of Jews," said Ben Gvir.
Son Har Melech said that it is disappointing to see how time after time "right-wing policies are not carried out in the field and there is selective application of the law against Jews while Arabs are gaining control and building as they please. This cannot continue."
MK Son Har-Melech arrived at the site together with MK Tzvi Sukkot to block the police forces that came with bulldozers to uproot the trees and the olive grove established by the Ben Eliyahu family in the Shilo Valley in Binyamin. She told Israel National News-Arutz Sheva about the harassment she experienced on the part of the Border Police during the vineyard evacuation.
The destruction of the Ben Eliyahu family vineyard is only one of a number of other instances in which the civil administration uprooted orchards and vineyards in Judea and Samaria, the most recent having been at Yitzhar and in Gush Etzion.