Israel National News
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir throttled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Ben Gvir made his position clear– ‘Not just a superficial action, like what happened in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah continued to control the area. We need the collapse and dismantling of Hamas from the ground up, with no partial control or oversight left in the Gaza Strip.’
Earlier, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich outlined the red lines he conveyed to Netanyahu ahead of the Trump meeting.
Smotrich demanded ‘a full and complete exit of Hamas from Gaza and with the IDF maintaining full operational freedom throughout the Strip’.
He emphasized that ‘there must be no involvement of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, neither now nor in the future, neither explicitly nor implicitly,’ and added that ‘there will be no mention, even indirectly, of a Palestinian state.’
Smotrich also insisted that Qatar have no role whatsoever in handling matters in Gaza.
This morning, one of President Trump’s advisors told Axios: ‘Hamas has agreed to the deal 100%. Now we’re waiting for the President to work his ‘magic’ on Netanyahu.’