Netanyahu visiting US would have given Hamas the ‘wrong message’: Spokesperson

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An Israeli delegation’s planned visit to Washington would have sent the “wrong message” to Hamas if it proceeded as planned, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NewsNation Friday.

Netanyahu cancelled the visit after the U.S. abstained from a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza Monday. The U.S.’s abstention allowed the resolution to ultimately pass.

“It was bad timing,” Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Netanyahu, told NewsNation’s Mike Viqueira during an interview on…



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