Israeli Finance Minister Bezazel Smotrich has threatened to quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if he accepts the peace proposal presented by US President Joe Biden.

In a post on X, Smotrich wrote, “I have now spoken with the Prime Minister and made it clear to him that I will not be part of a government that will agree to the proposed outline and end the war without destroying Hamas and returning all the abductees.”

He demanded that the government continue its military campaign and achieve “the creation of a completely different security reality in Gaza and Lebanon”.

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