Netanyahu calls for calm after Golan Heights lynching …
Posted By admin on June 24, 2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that Israel would prosecute those involved in the mob killing of a wounded Syrian in the Golan Heights a day earlier, and appealed to Druze leaders for calm.
The Majdal Shams attack, which is being described in Hebrew-language media as a lynching, was the second assault on an ambulance carrying wounded Syrians in a day, as Druze acted on fears that Israel was aiding the same jihadists threatening their coreligionists across the border.
I view this with utmost gravity. We will not allow anyone to take the law into their hands, Netanyahu said at a cyber-security conference in Tel Aviv. We will not allow anyone to hinder IDF soldiers in their mission. We will locate those who perpetrated this lynching and we will deal with them to the fullest extent of the law.
Netanyahu called on leaders of the Druze community, a splendid community with whom we have a brotherly bond, citizens of the State of Israel, to push for calm and to entreat their coreligionists to respect the law, respect IDF soldiers and not take law into your hands.
The attack took place late Monday night, as the ambulance was carrying two wounded Syrians into Israel for treatment, escorted by an IDF vehicle. A mob of some 150 people hurled rocks at the cars, killing one of the injured men, further wounding the second one who is now in critical condition and lightly injuring two Israeli soldier.
It wasnt clear who perpetrated the lynching, or whether they were citizens of the State of Israel. The vast majority of Syrian Druze living in the Golan Heights do not have Israeli citizenship.
In a Tuesday report, the mouthpiece of the Assad regime, the Syrian Arab News Agency, praised the mob who attacked the ambulance and claimed that the wounded on board were al-Nusra Front jihadists.
Two terrorists from al-Nusra Front were killed Monday when heroes of the occupied Golan confronted a Zionist ambulance which was transporting them to receive treatment at one of the Israeli entitys hospitals, the report said.
The IDF vigorously denied claims that it permits jihadists entry to Israel for medical treatment and said that those on board the ambulance were civilians.
An ambulance attacked in the Golan Heights on June 22, 2015. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
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