Ministers: Hamas ‘Barbarians,’ ‘Hunt Them Down’

Minister of Public Security Yitzchak Aharonovich and Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon joined Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday in sounding an increasingly ominous tone toward the Hamas terror entity in Gaza.

Aharonovich called Hamas’s behavior “barbaric” and Ayalon said the terror group only understands force.

Aharonovich toured the Gaza Belt communities as terrorist missile attacks continued. He met with the head of the Sha’ar Hanegev local authority, Alon Shuster, and the head of Merhavim local authority Avner Mori, and offered them assistance in dealing with the security situation.

He also visited the spot where a Grad missile hit in the Negev town of Ofakim.

“There is no immunity for anyone in Gaza and they must know that we will hunt them down, one by one, until we find them. We will know how to reach their hiding places in the ground. The IDF has the means for that and we will use them,” Aharonovich declared.

The final stop on the minister’s tour was Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, where he visited Daniel Viflic, who was critically wounded when terrorists fired a Kornet anti-tank missile at the school bus he was in.

“Hamas behavior is barbaric,” he said outside the hospital. “Everyone knows that a yellow bus is an international marking for a vehicle transporting children, and firing at it is a heinous crime and a crossing of a line.”

“Hamas has no compunctions but we will know how to react with the force that the IDF possesses. We will not the abandon residents of the South and we will hunt down Hamas and the terror groups wherever they may be.”

Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Sunday that “terror will never defeat us. The nation of Israel will always know how to close ranks in the face of threats, and we are all with the residents of the South. Unfortunately Hamas only understands force, and Israel knows how to make Hamas understand that terror will have a steep price tag.”