Far-right lawmakers call to ‘open the gates of hell’ on Hamas if it doesn’t free all hostages by Saturday

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “open the gates of hell” on Hamas if the terror group does not acquiesce to Trump’s demand for all hostages to be released by Saturday.

In a statement, the far-right minister urges Netanyahu to “inform Hamas unequivocally: Either all the hostages are released by Saturday — no more phases, no more games — or we open the gates of hell on them.”

Meanwhile, Otzma Yehudit chair Itamar Ben Gvir, who resigned from the government in protest over the hostage deal, calls Israel’s lack of commitment to Trump’s demand “a disgrace.”

“President Trump is giving the government the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza if all our hostages are not released, and the government prefers to continue down the reckless path,” he writes on X.