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Gantz backs hostage deal, in swipe at Smotrich, says not bringing them home would be ‘catastrophe’
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National Unity chair Benny Gantz seen at the Knesset on December 18, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
National Unity leader Benny Gantz says his party gives full backing to the emerging hostage-ceasefire deal, swiping at Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who said it would be a “catastrophe.”
“Reaching a plan to return our hostages is a supreme value and a strategic necessity — failing to return them and abandoning them is a national catastrophe,” Gantz says in a statement.
“National Unity will give full political backing to the plan for their return,” he says.
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