Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated that Israel must control the Gaza Strip at all times, calling for Jewish settlement inside the Strip.
Smotrich said during a television interview on Israel’s Channel 14 that “Israel will not be able to permanently control Gaza without a civilian presence, so that terrorism has no place to grow.”
“Look why Jenin and Tulkarm (in the West Bank) have turned into capitals of terrorism, because there is no Jewish settlement,” he said.
The remarks extended even to all Palestinians in West Bank cities and villages, with Smotrich saying in late November that “there are about two million Nazis,” referring to Palestinian citizens of the West Bank.
Along with Ben-Gvir, he is known as the most extreme in the history of Israeli governments.