State Department says Israeli finance minister’s call to wipe out Palestinian village ‘repugnant’

The State Department denounced the Israeli finance minister’s call for the elimination of a Palestinian village as “repugnant,” calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials to repudiate the comments. Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press briefing on Wednesday that the remarks that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich made, saying that Israel should “wipe out” the Palestinian town of Hawara…