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Smotrich: Huwara should be wiped out

1 March 2023, 2:02 pm 3 Edit
Cars burned by settlers during riots in Huwara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
Cars burned by settlers during riots in Huwara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, February 27, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says the Palestinian village that was the scene of a deadly settler rampage earlier this week should be “wiped out.”

Speaking at a financial conference, Smotrich, who is also the head of the far-right Religious Zionism party and a minister with responsibility for civil affairs in the West Bank within the Defense Ministry, is asked why he liked a tweet calling for Huwara to be wiped out.

“Because I think the village of Huwara should be wiped out,” Smotrich says.

“I think the State of Israel should be the one to wipe it out, not, God forbid, private people,” he says.

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