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Smotrich calls for doing in West Bank 'what we did in Gaza'
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called on Israel to “go to war” in the West Bank and “do what we did in Gaza.” </p>
<p>“I certainly have solutions” to the situation in the West Bank, he told a podcast on Ynet outlet. </p>
<p>“I think we need to go to war in Judea and Samaria, to do there what we did in Gaza, to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which is a terror authority,” he said.</p>
<p>He also called on Israel to annex southern Lebanon and the areas of Gaza still under Israeli control.</p>
<p>Smotrich has previously called on Israel to annex more than 80 percent of the West Bank. His campaign for next month’s election has frequently called for a significant expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.<br>
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