Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at the opening of his party's - Religious Zionism - faction meeting and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the negotiations with Hamas and continue with "intense warfare" in the Gaza Strip. "No more dialogue with murderers, no more negotiations with Nazis, no more deals with the devil, no halting and stagnation," he said. Smotrich also claimed that "in 12 days we eliminated the Iranian nuclear program - something that will be remembered for generations," and that Syria "is sending envoys to discuss normalization and peace agreements."