Coalition members are initiating impeachment proceedings against Knesset member Iman Khatib-Yasin (UAL) who denied the atrocities of the Simchat Torah massacre.
Members of Knesset Hanoch Milwidsky and Osher Shekalim began efforts to invoke the regulations for impeachment. The process requires the signatures of 70 members of Knesset and later also an impeachment vote which must be supported by at least 90 members of Knesset.
Uman later apologized for her statements, but (Monday) it was reported on Ynet that UAL leader Mansour Abbas did not accept the apology of his party member and met with the legal advisor of the Knesset, attorney Sagit Afek, to examine which sanctions can be imposed on a member of the Knesset who refuses to resign from her position despite her party's call to do so.
In an interview yesterday with Knesset TV, she was asked about the IDF spokesman's film about the October 7 massacre.
Iman admitted that she did not go in to watch it, but said that according to what she had heard "first-hand" it did not appear that babies were slaughtered or women were raped.
"What happened is difficult. For me it is something terrible, something very big that cannot be tolerated, but we do not get involved in the semantics of things. I am a religious Muslim woman - and what happened goes against the values of Islam," said the MK. "However, it cannot be separated from everything that came before it. It doesn't justify it, but what is happening now in Arab society is difficult."
Hours after the storm that arose, she issued an apology: "I was wrong, I regret it and apologize. I had no intention of downplaying or denying the shocking massacre on the seventh of October and the horrible acts against women, babies and the elderly who were murdered in the south."
"From day one, I voiced a clear position regarding the condemnation and condemnation of these heinous acts against Jews and Arab citizens of Israel on that black Sabbath, and it is appropriate to emphasize this again, especially at this time," Iman said.