Israeli PM Netanyahu says a call from a prominent Cabinet member for a Palestinian village to be erased was “inappropriate.” “It is important for all of us to work to tone down the rhetoric, lower the temperature.”
was “inappropriate,” days after it prompted an international outcry.
Instead he implied that Smotrich misspoke and thanked him for later walking back on the comments and “making clear that his choice of words” was “inappropriate.” Hawara is a village of 7,000 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Surrounded by settlements, it is often abetween Palestinians and Israelis. Unlike cities such as Ramallah that are under the control of the Palestinian Authority, Hawara is mostly under Israeli security control.
However, Netanyahu’s coalition government, the most right wing in the nation’s history, did pledge settlement construction in the West Bank as its central objective upon taking power in December.
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