From Smotrich says hostage rallies are harming the prospect of bringing them home
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionist party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 12, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that the mass protests calling for a hostage release deal are damaging the prospects of them being freed.
In an interview with the Kikar Shabbat Haredi news outlet, Smotrich says that “one of the things that is most harming the chance of bringing the hostages home is the campaign and the protests.”
The leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party says that Hamas chief Yihya “Sinwar is sitting and watching the protests and the calls for ‘now’ and ‘at any price’…. and he says ‘great, just a little more patience and I’ll win.'”
