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Thursday, August 1, 2024
Smotrich: With Deif’s death, collapse of Hamas ‘closer than ever’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Hamas’s collapse is “closer than ever” in the wake of Muhammad Deif’s death and “we must not stop a moment before victory,” writes far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on X.
“Hamas chief of staff Muhammad Deif is eliminated, Hezbollah chief of staff Fuad Shukar is eliminated, many thousands of terrorists including very senior ones were eliminated, and we will continue like this until we destroy them all, restore security and bring the hostages back home,” he writes. He adds a biblical verse: “I will pursue my enemies and I will overtake them and I will not return until they are gone.”
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