Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ to give Hamas ‘2-month ultimatum’ to disarm, Israeli finance minister says

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Monday that Hamas will be given a “two-month ultimatum” by US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” to disarm, Anadolu reports. “The Board of Peace will issue a two-month ultimatum to Hamas to disarm,” Smotrich said in comments carried by the local newspaper Makor Rishon. He said that Israel will not end its war on the Gaza Strip “before Hamas is destroyed.” “There will be no Hamas in Gaza, neither militarily, nor civilianly, nor in government. We made a commitment, and that is the main objective of the war.” There was no immediate comment from Trump’s “Board of Peace” on Smotrich’s statements. The extremist minister said the Israeli army controls more than half […]