Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, after he ruled out the possibility of encouraging the voluntary migration of Gazans to countries abroad.
"US Secretary of State Blinken, welcome to Israel. We greatly appreciate the US's support for Israel, but as far as our existence in our country is concerned, we will always act according to the Israeli interest."
Smotrich added, "That is why we will continue to fight with all our might to destroy Hamas, we will not transfer a single shekel to the Palestinian Authority that will go to the families of the Nazis in Gaza and we will work to allow the opening of the gates of Gaza for the voluntary migration of refugees as the international community did to the refugees from Syria and Ukraine."