“The Israeli Security Cabinet has decided to authorize police to use live ammunition against people throwing stones and Molotov cocktails when the life of a third person is threatened and no longer only when the police officer is threatened,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

Until recently, police officers were only permitted to fire when they considered that their lives were in danger.

Speaking at a meeting on Thursday,  Netanyahu stressed that his cabinet wants to change the situation where stone throwers“can hurl these lethal and murderous objects without response and without being foiled,” Haaretz reported.