Separately, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said two soldiers were injured in a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint. My heart goes out to the victims of this attack.' He added that Israel would continue its policy of easing regulations for issuing gun licences to private citizens.īlinken, on his third visit to the region since the war erupted, said Thursday's shooting was a reminder 'of the threat from terrorism that Israel and Israelis face every single day. Israel's far-right minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir, told reporters at the site of the attack that it 'proves again how we must not show weakness, that we must speak to Hamas only through the (rifle) scopes, only through the war.' 'The operation came as a natural response to unprecedented crimes conducted by the Occupation (Israel),' it said in a statement, citing the military offensive in Gaza and the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
