Joint List's Aida Touma-Sliman later acknowledges video actually shows PA disinfecting West Bank checkpoint as part of efforts against coronavirus; Bennett calls her 'anti-Semitic'
A lawmaker from the Arab-majority Joint List on Friday accused the IDF of an “atrocity” by spraying Palestinians “with an unknown substance,” before acknowledging the video clip of the incident actually shows Palestinian Authority forces disinfecting a West Bank checkpoint.
“Another atrocity [being committed] by the occupation under the cover of the coronavirus — the IDF is spraying Palestinians at the Qalqilya checkpoint with an unknown substance. Everyone agrees the spraying method is not effective in the fight against the virus,” Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman wrote on Twitter
She added: “The horrors being committed under the cover of the crisis can’t be ignored.”
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett quickly responded that the video was from the Palestinian side of the Eyal checkpoint near Qalqilya and that it was the Palestinian Authority who decided on disinfecting the area.
“You’re a liar, anti-Semitic and contemptible,” Bennett said. “It’s unbelievable that Bogie [Ya’alon], Yvette [Avigdor Liberman, [Benny] Gantz, Gabi [Ashkenazi] and [Yair] Lapid are ready to form a government with your finger [on it].”
