Palestinians have criticised an Israeli legislator who said he would "execute" a Palestinian assailant's family as revenge for an operation that killed three Israelis in an occupied West Bank settlement.

In a video posted (Hebrew) over the weekend on his official Facebook account, which has more than 82,000 likes, Israeli Knesset Member MK Oren Hazan said he would demolish the home of Palestinian assailant Omar al-Abed and "execute" his family.

Mustafa Barghouti, the former Palestinian information minister and general secretaryof the Palestinian National Initiative political party, said Hazan's comments expose "how deeply ingrained racism" has become in Israel through "its system of apartheid and occupation".

"It's very dangerous," he told Al Jazeera by telephone, "and these types of comments are overlooked by many parties in the international community."

Hazan said in the video: "I want to be honest without sounding too extreme, god forbid, but if it was up to me I would've gone to the terrorist's house yesterday, grabbed him and his whole family and executed them all together."

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