Israeli far-right politicians welcomed US President Donald Trump’s call for the cancellation of the Gaza truce deal unless Hamas frees all remaining captives by Saturday, Al Jazeera reports.

“All of them, now!”, said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a post on X, seemingly referring to the captive release.

“Trump is right! We must go back and destroy now,” former National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said.

Ben-Gvir, the politician who resigned from Netanyahu’s war cabinet in protest against the ceasefire deal, said earlier that Israel should respond to Hamas’s move with “a massive fire attack” and a complete suspension of humanitarian aid.

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