[cont’d] Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has condemned the acts of revenge performed in the West Bank by Jewish settlers, following the finding of the body of 14-year-old Binyamin Ahimeir near the settlement where he lived.
Gallant wrote on X: "I ask the public - let the security forces act quickly in their search for the terrorists. Acts of revenge will make our forces' jobs harder, do not take the law into your own hands." Gallant added that Israel's security establishment "will get to the killer and use the full legal measures against them, as we do with any terrorist or killer.