JAKARTA - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he would pursue a policy of "encouraging migration" of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
"We will remove the idea of an Arab terrorist state," Smotrich said, speaking at an event organized by his Religious Zionist Party, Al Arabiya reported from AFP (18/2).
"Finally, officially and practically, we will cancel the damned Oslo Agreement and begin the path to sovereignty, while encouraging emigration from Gaza and Judea-Samaria," the right-wing politician continued, using the traditional Jewish name for the West Bank.
"There is no other long-term solution," Smotrich said.
Since last week, Israel's security cabinet has approved a series of measures backed by right-wing ministers to tighten control over the West Bank, including in areas administered by the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords, which have been in place since the 1990s.
On Tuesday, a U.N. mission of 85 countries condemned the measures, which critics say amount to a de facto annexation of Palestinian territory.
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