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Netanyahu backs army chief in row over use of deadly force
Published :Monday, 22 February, 2016,  Time : 12:00 AM  View Count : 11
JERUSALEM, Feb 21 : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his army chief on Sunday after his comments on the use of force against young Palestinian attackers drew rightwing fire.
Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot on Wednesday told high school seniors heading for compulsory military service that troops should not use excessive firepower in combating a wave of Palestinian violence in which many youthful assailants have died.
Hardliners, including senior members of Netanyahu's own Likud party, responded angrily to his comments.
Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz called them "mistaken and unfortunate" and liable "to cause soldiers to hesitate to open justified fire against terrorists in future." "This is a meaningless debate," Netanyahu told journalists at the start of Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting. "What the chief of staff said is self-evident," he added.
Questions have been raised in the Israeli media in recent days over whether Netanyahu would publicly support Eisenkot, with the prime minister under political pressure over his government's failure to halt the wave of violence.
Eisenkot's remarks were in response to a question from a student about the use of deadly fire. "Rather he should use the force necessary to fulfil the objective." He was thought to be alluding to a November attack by two Palestinian girls aged 14 and 16, who stabbed with scissors and lightly wounded an elderly man in Jerusalem. ?AFP









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