Jerusalem — Israel's finance minister said Saturday he had chosen his words poorly when he called for a Palestinian town to be 'wiped out' after two Israeli settlers were killed there. The two young settlers were shot dead on February 26 in their car in Huwara, a northern town in the West Bank, sparking attacks by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian town. 'I think the village of Huwara needs to be wiped out,' Bezalel Smotrich, head of the far-right Religious Zionism party and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, had said on Wednesday.

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