Anyone who attacks Israel should be prepared to die, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, after the IDF killed the terrorists who murdered three members of the Dee family last month.
“This morning we made the murderers of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, of blessed memory, pay,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu: Whoever hurts us, be prepared to die
Israel’s message to terrorists, the prime minister added, is that “it may take a day, a week or a month, but you can be sure that we will make you pay.
“It doesn’t matter where you hide; we will find you. Whoever hurts us, be prepared to die,” he said.
Netanyahu thanked security forces for working night and day to catch the killers.
Rabbi Leo Dee, the husband and father of the terrorists’ victims, said that he and his children “were comforted to hear that the Israeli security forces have eliminated the Iranian-funded terrorists responsible for Lucy, Maia, and Rina’s murders.
“This has been done in a way that has not endangered the lives of Israeli soldiers, nor innocent Palestinian civilians – in a way that only the Israeli army knows how to do,” he said, adding that he wants “the opportunity to speak with the terrorists’ families and ask what good they thought would come out of their actions and to hear their vision for a better world.”
Dee was later interviewed on KAN Reshet Bet, where he was asked if he felt any sense of comfort. “Nothing can really comfort our loss,” he said. “Our greatest comfort, though, was seeing the patients in Beilinson.” On Tuesday, patients at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, who had received Lucy’s donated organs, met the family.
“We look towards the future, with what we have. Am Yisrael has a future,” he added.
The IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police killed three terrorists involved in the Dee family murders in an hourlong operation in the early morning on Thursday.
Hassan Katan and Maad Mitzri killed Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina in April. Ibrahim Hura, also killed on Thursday, was an accomplice.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.