The Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, asked to eradicate Huwara village, southern Nablus. 

During his participation in a conference he added, "Huwara must be entirely eradicated," he continued, "and I think that this must be a collective activity, not an individual one." Noting the colonial settlers who attacked Huwara, injured dozens of Palestinians, and set fire to dozens of homes and hundreds of vehicles.

Hamas responded to Smotritch’s claim that it is a dangerous indicator of the level of criminality and public incitement for settler gangs committing more massacres against the Palestinians, under guardianship from the fascist occupation government.