“We bring in aid because there is no choice,” Smotrich, the finance minister, said at a conference hosted by the right-wing news outlet Israel Hayom. “We can’t, in the current global reality, manage a war. Nobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”

Shitbag! Bring him before the ICJ. This fucker needs to be in a cell. I’m typically am against carceral punishment, but this is absolutely earned.