Israel’s defense minister lashed out at Palestinian militants, saying if they do not stop attacking Israelis, “the hard lives of the Palestinians will be even more intolerable.” Speaking after Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli woman in a West Bank ambush, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer threatened, “Hell will arrive at their doors.”
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