Bayit Yehudi party chairman Minister Naftali Bennet and party MK Moti Yogev are proposing a bill that would permit expelling the family of a terrorist.

According to the Maariv report, they first wanted to be permitted to expel family members of terrorists to Gaza, albeit without success. The new watered-down version would permit ‘relocating’ them from their home village in Yehuda and Shomron to another venue in the same areas.

While both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit oppose the bill, which they explain would not stand the test of the International Court of Justice, Bennet managed to push it through the ministerial committee without their backing. It is to be determined if the bill call pass in Knesset.

If passed into law, the government would have a period of seven days following an attack to act, to relocate the family in accordance to the law, as an act of deterrence against future attacks.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)