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Smotrich: Demand to stop war is demand for Israel to ‘cease to exist’

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that Israel will not agree to stop its war on Gaza, as that would be tantamount to it "decree[ing] itself to cease to exist.

"We continue to fight for ourselves and for the entire free world. History will judge who today stood by the Nazis of Hamas and ISIS," he said in a post on X.