Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yisrael Beiteynu party, stated that "the growing anarchy of a violent minority and the loss of control over them in Judea and Samaria are a security, leadership, political and moral disgrace that does not represent the vast majority of Israeli citizens. This is the result of a government policy led by Netanyahu and his coalition partners in which they knowingly abandon the national interest of the State of Israel out of embarrassing and dangerous political weakness." He was referring to the violent riots in the Palestinian village of Kusra in the Binyamin region, which according to the IDF began with stone-throwing by Israeli rioters at Palestinians.