Ici Beyrouth - Bezalel Smotrich

Israel’s Far Right Calls for Return of Settlements to Gaza

par This Is Beirut, 29/01 14:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Benjamin Netanyahu Bezalel Smotrich Gaza Israel

Thousands of Israelis, including several far-right ministers, gathered in Jerusalem on Sunday, January 28, to call for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza. Part of Israeli society is calling for the settlements to be repopulated, despite Benjamin Netanyahu's apparent refusal to do so. A few thousand Israelis in favor of relocating ...

Israel Seizes Record Land Area in West Bank Amid Blinken's Visit

par This Is Beirut, 22/03 16:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Antony Blinken Bezalel Smotrich Israel

Israel reported the seizure of 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the West Bank on Friday, deemed as "state lands" by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, marking the largest such action in decades. Israel reported Friday the seizure of 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank, which activists called the largest action of its ...

Gantz and Smotrich Air Differences Over Gaza Truce Deal

par This Is Beirut, 28/04 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Benny Gantz Bezalel Smotrich Gaza Hamas Israel

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz called for Hamas to be destroyed, as planned by the government when it went to war after the Islamist movement's October 7 attack. "If you decide to raise a white flag and cancel the plan to occupy Rafah aimed at destroying Hamas in order to restore security to ...

Israel Unblocks Some Frozen Funds for Palestinian Authority

par This Is Beirut, 04/07 21:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Bezalel Smotrich Gaza Hamas Israel

Israel has approved a new payment of more than $140 million to the Palestinian Authority after announcing it had also unblocked some funds frozen because of the Gaza war, a Finance Ministry spokesperson told AFP on Thursday. Since the start of the war on Hamas, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has withheld payments of customs ...

UN 'Shocked and Appalled' by Smotrich's Starvation Comments

par This Is Beirut, 09/08 15:19 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Bezalel Smotrich Gaza

UN rights chief Volker Türk was "shocked and appalled" by comments by Israel's finance minister suggesting it might be "justified" to starve the population of Gaza to free hostages, his spokesman said Friday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights "condemns these words in the strongest terms, which also incite hatred against ...

US Lashes Out at Far-Right Israeli Criticism on Deal

par This Is Beirut, 10/08 12:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Bezalel Smotrich

The White House on Friday denounced a far-right Israeli minister in unusually strong terms after he questioned a US-brokered deal for a ceasefire with Hamas. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who was controversially brought into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government despite his extreme background, had urged rejection of a US push for ...

Top Israeli Ministers Reject Lebanon Ceasefire with Hezbollah

par This Is Beirut, 26/09 19:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Bezalel Smotrich Herzi Halevi Hezbollah Israel Israel Katz Itamar Ben-Gvir

Three ministers from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition on Thursday rejected a US-led proposal for a Lebanon ceasefire and demanded that the fight against Hezbollah go on. The United States and allies issued a joint call for a 21-day halt in fighting in Lebanon after Israeli air strikes on Iran-backed Hezbollah killed ...