Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel in a video snippet from her speech in Paris on November 10, 2025 (MFA_Israel/X)
Deputy FM Sharren Haskel during her speech in Paris (video snippet)

'Blow It Up’: Israel’s Deputy FM Sends a Message to Hamas...and D.C.

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Deputy FM Sharren Haskel: “Blow the Tunnel. End the Blackmail.” Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister warns against surrendering to international pressure to release 200 Hamas terrorists trapped beneath Gaza, a moment she calls a test of Israel’s resolve and the world’s moral hypocrisy.

Standing in Paris, the so-called City of Light, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel delivered one of the bluntest statements yet heard from an Israeli official since the Trump-brokered ceasefire began:

“The State of Israel needs to send an unequivocal message to Hamas and blow up this tunnel with the 200 terrorists inside.”

Her words, searing and uncompromising, cut through the fog of diplomacy that has surrounded the latest ceasefire phase. The tunnel in question, buried deep beneath Rafah, now doubles as both a tomb and a test, for Israel’s moral courage, for the West’s integrity, and for the world’s ability to distinguish between terrorists and victims.

Washington’s “Safe Passage” Gambit

According to diplomatic sources, American envoys have been quietly pressuring Jerusalem to allow the trapped terrorists a so-called “safe passage” in exchange for surrendering their weapons, an arrangement that, to many Israelis, sounds more like a reward for barbarism than an act of diplomacy.

Haskel rejected the idea outright. “Since the ceasefire was signed, Hamas has continually tested us, pushed our red lines, and blackmailed us,” she said. “It must stop.”

Among those trapped beneath Rafah, intelligence officials confirm, are veteran Hamas commanders and direct participants in the October 7 massacre, who murdered Israeli families, soldiers, and children. “These are not combatants,” Haskel said. “They are executioners hiding underground.”

The Ceasefire’s Unkept Promises

The international chorus demanding Israel’s “restraint” grew louder following the return of Lt. Hadar Goldin’s body on Sunday, 11 years after Hamas murdered him during the 2014 war, two hours after a ceasefire took effect.

That single act of bad faith became a symbol of Hamas’s duplicity, and a warning ignored by much of the world. Under the ceasefire terms, Hamas was obligated to release all hostages, living and dead. Yet the terror group continues to manipulate humanitarian channels and diplomatic leverage as weapons in their ongoing psychological war.

“Meaningless” to Spare Murderers

Agriculture and Food Security Minister Avi Dichter, a member of Israel’s Security Cabinet, echoed Haskel’s defiant tone earlier this week. He dismissed the notion of granting freedom to the trapped Hamas fighters as “tactically irrelevant.”

“Whether they leave or not is meaningless in the long term,” Dichter said. “We will find them. We will close the story. They will not collect social security.”

His comment captured the prevailing mood in Israel: no more appeasement, no more illusions about the nature of the enemy.

Paris Conference and the Face of Hypocrisy

Haskel’s visit to France coincided with an international conference on sexual violence in conflict — a subject Israel knows all too well after the horrors of October 7, when Hamas terrorists used rape and mutilation as instruments of terror.

But Haskel says the world’s moral compass has gone haywire.

“We placed a mirror in front of the foreign press and the international community over their hypocrisy,” she told JNS. “Their support for women is conditional, dependent on race, religion, and political agenda. When Israeli women are the victims, their silence is deafening.”

Hatred on Display in Paris

The hypocrisy she described came to life days earlier in Paris, when anti-Israel extremists disrupted a performance by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, igniting smoke bombs, lighting flares, and setting a chair on fire, turning a celebration of art into an act of hate.

“It’s absolutely unacceptable,” Haskel said. “These hooligans are importing destruction to the streets of Paris, endangering innocent citizens who just wanted to hear music.”

The attack, widely condemned in France, revealed how Europe’s moral weakness toward Islamist agitation has metastasized into open antisemitic violence, even against orchestras.

The Message Israel Must Send

Haskel’s words resonate far beyond the narrow confines of that Rafah tunnel. To Israelis, it represents a moral crossroads: whether to capitulate once again to Western guilt and double standards, or to end the blackmail once and for all.

“Blow the tunnel,” Haskel said. “End the cycle. Let the world know that Jewish blood will no longer lubricate the gears of international diplomacy.”

Her statement wasn’t just policy, it was prophecy.

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