Israel Allows Hundreds of Thousands of Settlers to Carry Guns

Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan stated that Israel has eased the criteria for the obtainment of personal gun permits.

News ID: 71939

Date: 23 August 2018 - 15:19

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The move is expected to lead to hundreds of thousands of Israelis applying for a license, Palinfo reported.

The law is for new license applicants and holders of existing licenses, according to the sources.

“Israel infantry-unit veterans and active police officers will also be able to apply for gun permits with an easy process,” the sources noted.

In a statement Erdan claimed that “many citizens have saved lives during terror attacks, and in the era of ‘lone-wolf’ attacks, the more qualified gun-carrying citizens there are, the better the chance to stop terror attacks without casualties and reduce the number of casualties”.

Also, a new Israeli bill, proposed by Likud MK Anat Berko on Wednesday, would prohibit the Palestinian flag from being raised at demonstrations, according to Israeli sources.

The bill, which will be presented when the Knesset returns from its summer recess, came in response to a protest organized two weeks ago in Tel Aviv by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab citizens of Israel during which Palestinian flags were waved and anti-Israel slogans were chanted.

According to Israel Hayom paper, “the legislation would subject violators to up to a year in prison. It would apply to the flag of the PLO and to flags of enemy states”.

Berko said she expected the government to support the bill and expedite its passage.

On August 11, tens of thousands of Arabs gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square for the second large-scale protest in eight days against the recently passed racist Nation-State Law.

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