Incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir fired back against comments made by the U.S. State Department regarding “accountability” for the death of a 16-year-old girl who was accidentally shot by IDF troops during a fierce gun battle between Israeli soldiers and terrorists in the city.
“The comments by the American government are upsetting,” Ben-Gvir said in a statement quoted by Arutz Sheva.
“When hundreds of bullets were fired by terrorists at IDF soldiers and Border Police officers, we cannot judge our soldiers as if they are working in a laboratory situation.
“There’s no doubt that the teenage girl’s death is a tragedy, but there is also no doubt that any other army in the world would have completed the kind of operation we carried out in Jenin with dozens of [bystanders] killed, and not with measured, focused operations.
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