Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's call for a Palestinian village to be “erased” amounted to incitement to violence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must publicly disavow it, the US State Department said on Wednesday.
An ultranationalist in Mr Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, Mr Smotrich made the comments at a conference on Wednesday amid a spate of deadly Palestinian attacks and Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
Asked about a weekend settler rampage through the village of Hawara, which an Israeli general on Tuesday described as a “pogrom”, Mr Smotrich said “I think that Hawara needs to be erased”.
“I think that the state of Israel needs to do it, but God forbid not individual people.”
State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that Mr Smotrich's comments “were irresponsible. They were repugnant. They were disgusting”.
Mr Price said “and just as we condemn Palestinian incitement to violence, we condemn these provocative remarks that also amount to incitement to violence”.
Israel's police have arrested 10 people for suspected involvement in the Hawara attack in which one Palestinian was killed.
The rampage followed a Palestinian gun attack that killed two Israelis.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and arrested six others suspected of involvement in the fatal shooting of an Israeli-American in the West Bank on Monday.
After making the Hawara comments, Mr Smotrich issued a statement saying the media had misinterpreted them, without retracting his call for the village to be erased.
“I spoke about how Hawara is a hostile village that has become a terrorist outpost” where attacks against Jews are launched daily, Mr Smotrich said, adding it was forbidden to take the law into one's own hands.
“I support a disproportionate response by the (Israeli military) and the security forces to every act of terrorism,” including the “deportation of the families of the terrorists,” Mr Smotrich said.
Teachers' pay - what you need to know
Pay varies significantly depending on the school, its rating and the curriculum. Here's a rough guide as of January 2021:
- top end schools tend to pay Dh16,000-17,000 a month - plus a monthly housing allowance of up to Dh6,000. These tend to be British curriculum schools rated 'outstanding' or 'very good', followed by American schools
- average salary across curriculums and skill levels is about Dh10,000, recruiters say
- it is becoming more common for schools to provide accommodation, sometimes in an apartment block with other teachers, rather than hand teachers a cash housing allowance
- some strong performing schools have cut back on salaries since the pandemic began, sometimes offering Dh16,000 including the housing allowance, which reflects the slump in rental costs, and sheer demand for jobs
- maths and science teachers are most in demand and some schools will pay up to Dh3,000 more than other teachers in recognition of their technical skills
- at the other end of the market, teachers in some Indian schools, where fees are lower and competition among applicants is intense, can be paid as low as Dh3,000 per month
- in Indian schools, it has also become common for teachers to share residential accommodation, living in a block with colleagues
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