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Smotrich joins call to pull out of Aqaba summit following terror attack
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting in the Givat Harel settlement in the West Bank, February 14, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich joins a call for Israel to pull its delegation from an ongoing security summit with the Palestinian Authority in Jordan following the deadly shooting attack earlier today.
“We don’t speak with terror. We strike at terror,” Smotrich tweets following the terror attack.
“I call on the prime minister to bring the Israeli delegation back from Aqaba immediately,” he adds, calling for the cabinet to convene to decide on a series of security measures in the wake of the attack.
Israel has sent Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi to the summit in Aqaba to meet with Palestinian officials as well as US, Jordanian and Egyptian figures.
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