Israeli Finance Minister Bezel Smotrich’s statements calling for “the Palestinian city of Hawara to be wiped off the face of the earth” provoked such a wide reaction that Washington called it disgusting! Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said, “It only takes statements from an extremist Israeli minister.” who still live under the burden of the last terrible crime committed by the occupiers, during which houses and property were burned, murders were committed and children and women were intimidated.
He called on “the United Nations, the European Union and all international organizations to condemn these statements and activate international resolutions to boycott the Israeli occupation entity, hold it accountable for its crimes and prevent it from escaping punishment.”
The Palestinian minister welcomed the United States’ condemnation of Smotrich’s statements as heinous and irresponsible, calling for “associating this important condemnation with actions that end the crimes of Israeli occupation and lead to the opening of a political horizon for ending the occupation of Palestine and establishing a Palestinian state in accordance with resolutions having international legitimacy”.
Shtayyeh confirmed: “Smotrich’s statements reveal what Israeli officials were hiding, including terrorist policies and practices that we knew about and tried to convince the world about until they became apparent without any ambiguity, which puts the world above its responsibility.” .
The United States of America criticized Smotrich’s remarks as “irresponsible and disgusting”, and US State Department spokesman Ned Price, commenting on Smotrich’s words, said: “An irresponsible and disgusting statement.” Price called on “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials to condemn these statements,” stressing that the statements “equate to incitement to violence.”
In a speech at an economic conference hosted by Marker newspaper, Smotrich referred to an attack carried out by dozens of settlers last Sunday evening on Hawara, south of Nablus, which killed one Palestinian, injured dozens and burned dozens of houses and hundreds of cars. . For his part, the deputy head of the Palestinian movement Fatah, Mahmoud Al-Alul, called terrorist statements by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich about erasing a Palestinian city from the face of the earth. Al-Alul said, “Smotrich’s statements calling for the destruction of the city of Hawara are terrorist statements and set a dangerous precedent against the Palestinian people.”
The Palestinian statement, released on Thursday, called on “the entire world, international organizations and institutions to condemn these extremist and dangerous statements and related racist ideas and systematic incitement, and to hold Israel accountable for its unilateral, criminal and destructive actions.” . liquidation plans.
Smotrich, one of Israel’s most prominent figures on the far right and one of Netanyahu’s most important allies, has called for the Palestinian city of Hawara to be wiped off the map, prompting the US State Department to confirm that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s statements in which he called for “wiping » Khawara village. The Palestinian movement went as far as inciting violence and asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly disown him. State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that Smotrich’s remarks are disgusting, irresponsible and disgusting: “Just as we condemn Palestinian incitement to violence, we deplore these provocative statements, which also amount to incitement to violence.”
Following his statements, Smotrich issued a statement saying: The media misinterpreted his statements by not retracting his call to wipe out the village. terrorists.”
