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Smotrich: Administrative detention for settlers ‘anti-democratic and morally wrong’
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 18, 2023 (Amit Shabi/POOL)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotric slams the administrative detention orders issued against four Israelis for their role in attacking Palestinians.
“The use of administrative arrests against settlers is anti-democratic and morally wrong,” tweets Smotrich, who heads the far-right Religious Zionism party.
“When its purpose is not to prevent future risks, but to settle accounts with the detainees due to past acts attributed to them, it is also completely illegal,” he says.
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