Time Has Come to Assassinate Assad, Senior Israeli Minister Says
- Housing Minister cites reports of fresh atrocities in Syria
- Yoav Gallant was IDF major general responsible for Gaza front
A Syrian woman walks past a placard bearing a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad.
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President Bashar al-Assad should be eliminated to stop the atrocities taking place in Syria, according to an Israeli minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Gallant, a retired major general who led the Israel Defense Forces’s southern command, which includes the Gaza Strip, pointed to U.S. allegations that the Assad regime built a crematorium at a prison outside Damascus to cover up mass murders. The Syrian government has denied the U.S. claim. When asked who Gallant thinks should do the killing, his spokeswoman declined to elaborate.