JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Israeli ministers have rejected US criticism of their calls for expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said 70% of Israelis support a “humanitarian solution” for encouraging the emigration of Gazans. “Two million people [Palestinians in Gaza] wake up every mornin...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Hamas rejected Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s comments Tuesday about the displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. “We tell Smotrich and his likes that we are the ones who will stay on this land,” senior Hamas member Osama Hemdan said at a press conference in Beirut. He acc...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s finance minister has frozen the transfer of tax revenues amounting to some $188 million monthly to the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to the Israeli media. Bezalel Smotrich said the funds will be withheld over the failure of the Ramallah-based authority to condemn the October 7 cross-border incursions by the Ha...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s finance minister has ordered the legalization of three settlement outposts in the southern occupied West Bank. Bezalel Smotrich, who has a supervisory role over settlement activities within the Israeli Defense Ministry, said late Wednesday that he would advance the development of the three settlements. The settl...