„I reject/condemn the knife-attacks,“ the foreign minister said. „I think that it is awful and that it should not happen and Israel always has the right to defend itself and ensure its safety.

„And in the same way the response cannot be, and I say this in other situations as well, where the response becomes so that there are extrajudicial executions, or that it becomes disproportionate so the numbers of dead on the other side is greater than the original death toll by several factors,“ she said.