During an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Saturday, Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said that anyone who promised families of Israeli captives that they would all return alive “is not telling the truth” and that protests calling for a deal to swap Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners were harmful.

He also said that he supported the protests at Kerem Shalom crossing to block aid trucks from entering Gaza and that Israeli forces will instead occupy Gaza and distribute humanitarian aid themselves to “maintain Israel’s international backing” after establishing Israeli military rule in the Gaza Strip.

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