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Israeli official threatens to turn West Bank into RUINS just like the Gaza Strip
An Israeli official has threatened to turn the West Bank into ruins in the same manner as the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich issued this threat in a video posted on May 30. The video filmed outdoors showed the official addressing his "neighbors beyond the fence." In particular, Smotrich's message was aimed at Palestinians living in the West Bank cities of Tulkarem, Nur al-Shams, Shuweika and Qalqilya.
"We will turn you into ruins like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are inflicting on the settlements continues," he said. "Terrorism against the citizens of Israel must stop."
The finance minister warned of an unsafe future should the international community recognize the right of Palestinian statehood. He also warned that the Oct. 7 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood attack, launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, can happen in the West Bank as well.
"This will not come to be and will not happen. We will strike at the terror. We will continue to rule [the West Bank] because this is the security buffer for the settlements here in the seam zone and for the major cities located west of here within the state of Israel."
Smotrich's remarks sought to address alleged "violence" by Palestinians in the West Bank against illegal Israeli settlers. The finance minister and leader of the Mafdal-Religious Zionism party is also an illegal settler himself, as he lives in the Israeli settlement of Kedumim. Aside from his portfolio in the Israeli Ministry of Finance, Smotrich also holds a position in the Israeli Ministry of Defense that gives him the power to expand settlements in the West Bank – making him the occupation governor of the territory. ........more.....
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