KUWAIT has strongly condemned an Israeli official’s call to “wipe out” a Palestinian village.
The comments made by far-right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich about wiping out the Palestinian town of Huwara in the West Bank have earned criticisms.
Smotrich, who is the finance minister and defense ministry official, made the statement days after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli brothers in the town of Huwara.
Before making the controversial remark, the Israeli official was asked during a conference why he liked a deputy mayor’s Tweet asking “to wipe out the village of Huwara today.”
Smotrich responded and said he thinks the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out and Israel’s government should do it instead of the citizen.
His remarks earned criticisms from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United States, Jewish groups in, the US and the Jewish opposition.
Amid criticisms from several Arab countries, Smotrich clarified that he did not mean for the Palestinian village to be erased, but rather for Israel to focus on eradicating terrorism in the area.
