Liberman: Hamas behind West Bank violence, Israel should assassinate its leaders

19 June 2023, 2:37 pm

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Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 12, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At his Yisrael Beytenu party’s faction meeting at the Knesset, Avigdor Liberman says the government “must launch an extensive, large-scale military operation [in the northern West Bank] in order to clean out the gangs [of armed gunmen and terrorists] and get the weapons.”

Blaming Hamas for the violence, Liberman calls for a resumption of assassinations of Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip.

“We cannot accept the ‘rules of the game’ in which they can inflame Judea and Samaria while being immune in Gaza,” he says, using the biblical name for the West Bank.