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'Netanyahu inciting against us,' Arab MKs say after visiting terrorists' kin

FEBRUARY 5, 2016 16:20

Updated: FEBRUARY 5, 2016 16:19

The Joint List called Balad MKs’ visit with terrorists’ families a humanitarian one, saying on Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the one at fault for criticizing them.

“The meeting of MKs Jamal Zahalka, Haneen Zoabi and Bassel Ghattas,” from Balad, one of the parties making up the Joint List, “with families in eastern Jerusalem who want their sons’ bodies in order to bury them, was meant to promote a humanitarian issue of the first rate.

“The three MKs heard the family and their positions on the conditions the police set and passed the information on to Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who said a final decision had not yet been made. It is important to emphasize that burying the dead is a human and religious commandment in the three religions, Islam, Judaism and Christianity; therefore, we call to free the bodies immediately,” the faction’s statement reads.

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