Defense minister says lack of security coordination cannot justify shooting at innocent people; demands PA take steps against shooter.
By YAAKOV LAPPIN, TOVAH LAZAROFFBarak speech serious 311(photo credit: REUTERS/Charles Dharapak/Pool )Defense Minister Ehud Barak strongly condemned the murder of Ben Yosef Livnat and the injury of four others in the Nablus shooting attack early Sunday morning and said that no lack of security coordination can justify the opening of fire at innocent people.Barak ordered the IDF to investigate the incident and demanded that the Palestinian Authority investigate the shooting swiftly and take all the necessary steps against the shooter.RELATED:Yesha Council: Nablus shooting 'cannot pass silently'Think Again: The irrelevance of the settlements to peaceRattling the Cage: Kids are innocent, settlements aren’tOne Israeli worshiper was killed and four were wounded in Nablus early Sunday morning after their vehicle was shot at by a Palestinian Authority policeman as the group was exiting the city from prayer services held at Joseph's Tomb. Magen David Adom said one person was in serious condition, one in moderate condition and two others in light condition.Minister of Culture and Sports Limor Livnat (Likud) was "shocked at the murderous attack of her nephew Ben Yosef Livnat" who was killed in the attack."A man whose only goal on the second eve of Pessah was to pray, was murdered in cold blood in a hateful manner," Livnat said in a statement, "and has now left a woman and four orphans behind."MK Danny Danon (Likud) called on the US to reconsider its funding of the Palestinian security forces, as well as the training exercises that it does with them. He passed this request on to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee."As a true friend of Israel, we expect that the objective of this training would be to ensure Israeli security and not to kill its citizens," he said.
