Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has published this video of himself in Wadi Auja in the occupied West Bank to announce an “unprecedented investment” into the development of more illegal settlements.
He called this “a fitting Zionist response” to a Palestinian attack last week in the Jordan Valley that wounded two Israelis. Smotrich said the Israeli government is surveying the area for expansion, evaluating everything including water resources.
This is coming days after Israel was internationally criticized for declaring 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank as territory belonging to the Israeli state in its biggest illegal land grab in three decades.
As Israel tries to recover from the financial burden of its deadly war on Gaza and reassuring citizens, Smotrich also announced today that businesses in Eilat and Tamar in southern Israel could be entitled to compensation for damages suffered as a result of the war from the state.
Translation: An appropriate Zionist answer: expansion and development of Nahal Yitav (Auja). We arrived at the site in Jordan Valley and announced an unprecedented investment in the site and its development. This is a fitting Zionist response to the attack that took place last week in the Jordan Valley in which two Jews were wounded by gunfire from a terrorist caught this morning.
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