Bereaved Families Outraged by State Attorney: "Your Effort Rises in the Blood of Our Children" • Minister Smutrich: "Bud not worth carrying public office"
Nitzan's controversial statement // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
An uproar following State Attorney Shai Nitzan's statement Thursday night at a Haifa Public Law Association conference that any approval of demolition of terrorist homes "cost me blood."
Minister of Transport Bezalel Smutrich attacked Nitzan: "I want to claim the insult of the moral, the insults of the terror murderers, the bereaved families, and the entire state. Such a person would not be worthy of public office one day, certainly not a state attorney. We are in bloody mood.
Even bereaved families were furious at the state attorney who is currently resigning. Herzl Hajj, the father of a song killed in an attack on the commissioner's palace, wrote on Twitter "Shai Nitzan you are wrong. And hundreds more Israeli citizens. You continue the legacy of Rabbi Aharon Barak who said, "I prefer a few dozen Israeli murders, the main thing is to protect Arab rights."
At a conference in Haifa, Nitzan said: "My task was, if I could, to abolish all the protection regulations set by the British. Especially the Rule 119 of the demolition of terrorists' houses. Every house demolition of terrorists, myself and the counselor personally approves. It costs me blood, but We support that there is no choice, because the security system says it saves human lives. "
