Bezalel Smotrich
“The Israelis are going to be involved in providing necessary military security because it is a war zone but they will not be involved in the distribution of the food or even bringing the food into Gaza,” Huckabee said in a press conference.
During a faction meeting in northern Israel on Sunday, Smotrich suggested that Israeli forces retake control of the Philadelphi corridor, a 14-kilometer buffer zone along the Egypt-Gaza border.
An Israeli official source said that the meeting with the Egyptian security delegation was ‘very good’, adding that Israel provided ‘great flexibility regarding the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the strip and returning of Gaza residents’
Egypt voiced full rejection on Monday of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s “irresponsible and inciting” remarks that “there is no such thing” as a Palestinian people, warning that such remarks undermine efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian calm.
