“In order to free the hostages, Israel must reoccupy northern Gaza,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told reporters in the Knesset, ahead of the weekly meeting of factions of his ultra-nationalist HaTzionout HaDatit party.
“To recover the hostages, we must occupy the entire northern Gaza Strip and inform Hamas unequivocally that, if the hostages are not returned, we will apply Israeli sovereignty there and stay there forever,” he said. explained, saying the threat would give Hamas the motivation to keep the hostages alive.
He added that a hostage deal that included Israel agreeing to end the war would amount to a surrender to Hamas.
On the other hand, Smotrich called on the attorney general to resign, accusing her of not respecting Israeli democracy. According to him, Gali Baharav-Miara “remains doing nothing” in the face of incitement to violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
She opposed Sunday evening “a government effort to force the retirement of ministerial legal advisers who have served for more than seven years.” »
Baharav-Miara’s objections were based on a desire “to protect his friends and extract millions from them at the expense of the citizens of Israel,” Smotrich added.
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