Oren Tamam, Moshe's brother, demanded that Abu Mukh's citizenship be revoked on Monday in an interview with Army Radio, saying, "We live a 10 minutes' drive from him. This b****** has been receiving support from the Palestinian Authority for decades. We could see this human scum in the mall near our house."
Abu Mukh is among one of the highest paid terrorists in the PA's
pay-for-slay program. In 2019, Palestinian Media Watch reported that he had been paid more than NIS 1,561,500. The sum has presumably grown since then.
Ortal Tamam, Moshe's niece, stated that her family had contacted Interior Minister Arye Deri with a request to revoke Abu Mukh's citizenship more than a year ago, but Deri had so far refused to meet with the family, in posts on her Facebook page on Sunday.
"It is inconceivable that the killer of an IDF soldier, especially one who boasts of his murder, one who has become a hero, will return home," wrote Ortal Tamam. "But the killer Rushdi Abu Mukh is going to be my family's neighbor tomorrow, and Deri is not doing anything."
"Why does the interior minister have the power to revoke citizenship if not exactly for these cases? Denial of citizenship of one who sees the state soldiers as enemies to the point of murder? To the point of glorifying the killer?" asked Ortal Tamam in the post.
"My grandparents paid the dearest price for this country. They do not deserve to meet their son's killer at the supermarket or market or in line for a doctor," added Moshe's niece. "My father, my uncles and aunts, paid the dearest price for this country. They do not deserve to live in fear."
On Sunday, Transportation Minister Miri Regev also called for Abu Mukh's citizenship to be revoked. "There is nothing more moral and right than the Tamam family's demand to revoke the citizenship of the despicable terrorists who murdered the late Moshe Tamam," wrote Regev on Facebook.
