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»“Bringing the hostages home is important, but it’s not the most important goal,” Smotrich said Monday in an interview with a local right-wing radio station. “The alternative to surrender is seizing the territory in the Gaza Strip and destroying Hamas.”«

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/21/israel-smotrich-hostages-gaza-war/