Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's earlier condemnation of the Itamar terror attack on Israel Radio was important, but that he would have preferred the condemnation be made in the Palestinian media.

Netanyahu stated at a meeting of the Likud faction that a Palestinian minister had said that the Itamar attack may have been carried out by settlers or the Israeli government in order to avoid moving forward in the peace process. He added that more people in the Palestinian Authority were saying such things, therefore Abbas should speak clearly to his people to stop the incitement.