Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that the citizens of Israel should embrace the word “occupation” and that the country will not leave Gaza even with another hostage deal.
Israel plans to occupy the Gaza Strip and stay in the Palestinian territory for an undefined amount of time, the Associated Press reported Monday.
“We are finally going to occupy the Gaza Strip,” Smotrich told Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal. “We will stop being afraid of the word ‘occupation.’”
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“We are finally taking control of all humanitarian aid, so that it does not become supplies for Hamas. We are separating Hamas from the population, cleansing the Strip, bringing back the hostages — and defeating Hamas,” he said before adding that once a new offensive in Gaza
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