Smotrich laments that Israel didn’t kill hundreds in Gaza

6 May 2019, 9:52 am

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Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich criticizes the government for not inflicting more damage on the Gaza Strip during the violent flare-up over the weekend, saying the IDF should have killed hundreds of “terrorists” while carrying out retaliatory airstrikes in the Strip.

“The fighting in Gaza should have ended with seven hundred dead terrorists (one for every missile fired at Israel) and extensive physical damage to Hamas — so that it will take them years to recover and even think about attacking again,” Smotrich posts on Twitter.

The remains of what the IDF says was the Hamas terror group’s cyber unit in the Gaza Strip, which was destroyed in an Israeli Air Force strike on May 4, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza reported 23 deaths from the Israeli raids on Saturday and Sunday. The toll includes at least nine fighters from terrorist groups, a 12-year-old boy as well as two pregnant women and two babies.

Four Israelis also killed from the onslaught of rockets and mortars fired across the border over the weekend.