Israel's Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan exploded in a tirade against Facebook in the interviews he granted July 2. It was not the first time that Erdan accused Facebook of responsibility for the current terror wave in Israel, but his recent statements ratcheted up the war that Israel is trying to declare against the social media giant.

Speaking to Channel 2’s “Meet the Press,” Erdan claimed that "some of the blood of those who have been murdered" in Israel is on Facebook's hands, saying, “Facebook … has become a monster. The dialogue, the incitement, the lies of the young Palestinian generation are happening on the Facebook platform. … I call on Zuckerberg to do self-monitoring.”

On Feb. 8, Facebook's policy director in the United Kingdom and the Middle East and North Africa, Simon Milner, visited Israel and met with Erdan. Since then, the situation has only escalated.

The current terror wave, which had seemed to be dying down in recent weeks, has raised its ugly head again. On July 1, Rabbi Michael Mark from the Otniel West Bank settlement was murdered and his wife seriously wounded in front of their children in a Palestinian drive-by shooting. Only a day earlier, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, was murdered in her bed in the Kiryat Arba settlement by Muhammad Taraiyre, 19. He jumped over the locality’s protective fence, entered the house and murdered the girl with a knife while she slept in her bed.