Bezalel Smotrich seeks to keep Palestinian farmers away during olive harvest season.
JERUSALEM: Israel’s hardline nationalist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Monday for security zones to be set up around Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, keeping Palestinian farmers away during the olive harvest season.
Smotrich, head of one of the religious-nationalist parties in the ruling right-wing coalition, wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant to demand special zones around the settlements to stop Palestinians coming near “including for the olive harvest.” Smotrich said the Oct 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip offered lessons for Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
He said he had repeatedly demanded an overhaul of security policy in the area, which until now has focused on protecting the olive harvest.His letter comes amid escalating violence in the volatile West Bank in the wake of the Hamas attack and Israel’s air strikes on Gaza and ground campaign aimed at eradicating the group.
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