This is one guy you can take at his word.
Via ABC News:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would “reply harshly” after police saidPalestinian assailants wielding knives and axes killed three Israeli-Americans and another man during morning prayers at a Jerusalem synagogue.
The two alleged attackers were identified as cousins, Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal, from east Jerusalem, according to a police spokeswoman. Police said they shot and killed them at the scene.
After the attack, Netanyahu ordered the demolition of the alleged attackers’ homes and arrested multiple members of each man’s family. He told reporters he would also demolish the homes of other Palestinians accused of recent attacks against Israeli citizens.
“We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers,” said Netanyahu.
Netanyahu earlier had denounced the attack as a “cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers.”
Three American citizens were among the victims in the attack — Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59, formerly of Boston, Rabbi Kalman Levine, 55, and Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, Israeli officials said. The fourth dead victim, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, was a British national.