Israeli Cabinet minister says army should ‘go to war’ in occupied West Bank

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday that the army should “go to war” in the occupied West Bank and “do there what we did in Gaza,” where nearly 74,000 Palestinians were killed and over 175,000 others wounded since October 2023, Anadolu reports. “We need to go to war in Judea and Samaria,” Smotrich told Israeli news outlet Ynet, using the biblical name for the occupied West Bank, which is supposed to make up part of a future Palestinian state. Asked how Israel should respond to security tensions in the territory, Smotrich said: “We should do there what we did in Gaza.” He said the Israeli army should be instructed that there can be “no terrorist infrastructure” in the West […]