Escalation: Smotrich calls for war in West Bank
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should "go to war" in the occupied West Bank and dismantle the Palestinian Authority. He said Israel should "do there what we did in Gaza," in a podcast interview published Sunday by the Israeli outlet Ynet.
He also urged annexing parts of Gaza and of southern Lebanon. As head of the Religious Zionism party and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, a serving cabinet minister has now publicly called for a West Bank war and the PA's dissolution.
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