Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he rejected a plan for international recognition of a Palestinian state, saying such an initiative “would offer an enormous reward to terrorism”. Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich also criticized the plan in The Washington Post. “Israel will continue to oppose unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,” Mr. Netanyahu said on X. “Such recognition, in the wake of the October 7 massacre, would offer an enormous reward to unprecedented terrorism and would prevent any future peace agreement,” he added.
