Bennett says IDF should shoot to kill Gazans who cross border

Naftali Bennett visits the family of terror victim 28-year old Kim Levengrond Yehezkel

Times of Israel reports, “Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Monday that if he were defense minister, he would instruct the IDF to shoot and kill any Palestinians who cross into the country from Gaza or send arson balloons toward Israeli border communities. Speaking both on Army Radio and at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Bennett, who heads the Jewish Home party, said not enough was being doing to prevent terror attacks from the West Bank, claiming that there were 102 homes of terrorists that had been prepared for demolition and were still standing. ‘We need to destroy the home of the terrorist. Not measure, destroy,’ Bennett said, in a swipe at Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.”

“Bennett was speaking shortly after visiting the home of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, who was killed in a terror attack Sunday along with 35-year-old Ziv Hajbi in the Barkan Industrial Park in the northern West Bank. The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that it had measured the home of Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alowa, the suspected gunman in the attack, ahead of its eventual demolition.”

“Bennett, who is a member of the security cabinet, also said that the state had to prevent the Palestinian Authority from paying terrorists, claiming that the family of the suspected terrorist in Sunday’s shooting will begin receiving NIS 15,000 a month starting in November. ‘This must be stopped,’ Bennett said in reference to the PA’s policy of paying monthly stipends to families of security prisoners.” (more…)