He is known as a hard-liner. Now, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is brooding with his fantasies of destroying the Palestinian village of Hawara, which has been attacked by radical settlers.
15 houses burned, 25 cars burned, one dead: this is the balance of the devastation caused by radical Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Hawara. She doesn’t seem to shock everyone, though. “I think the village of Hawara needs to be eliminated,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday.
Violence between Israelis and Palestinians has increased dramatically in recent days. On Sunday, a Palestinian assassin shot dead two young Israeli brothers in their car near Hawara in the West Bank. The following night, around 400 Israeli settlers entered the village to take revenge on the residents collectively. Major General Yehuda Fuchs, who commands the Israeli military in the West Bank, among other places, spoke of a “pogrom”.