During the course of a television interview on Saturday, Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan described Facebook social network as a "monster," for not making enough efforts to curb violence and prevent incitement against Israel on the network.

With Israel having witnessed a series of street attacks carried out by Palestinians in recent months, Erdan said -- in the interview on Israel's Channel 2 -- that Facebook has not been helping to restrain online content which incites violence against the state.

The remarks made by Erdan about Facebook’s alleged failure in curbing violence have come in the wake of the fact that, as per a Reuters reports, incidents of violence since October 2015 have led to the killing of 34 Israelis and two Americans in Palestinian street attacks, and the killing of at least 201 Palestinians by Israeli forces.

According to the Israeli government, much of the violence in recent months has apparently been encouraged on the Facebook social networking site. The government has called on Facebook to monitor hateful online content more proactively.

Drawing attention to the fact that the Facebook site has a "a very high bar for removing inciteful content and posts," Erdan said in the Saturday interview that Facebook has been “sabotaging” police efforts to rein in violence by not cooperating in investigations in the West Bank.