Ben Gvir says Gantz’s departure an opportunity to ‘stop the humanitarian policy’ in Gaza
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir calls last night’s departure from the coalition by National Unity chief Benny Gantz “a very big opportunity,” arguing that in recent months the former war cabinet minister’s centrist party had “put a spoke in the wheels of the war machine.”
Gantz, alongside Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was one of three voting members of the decision-making war cabinet.
Speaking to reporters ahead of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset, Ben Gvir says that he believes “the solution is really that we will enter this [war] cabinet and be able to have even more influence.”
“The people of Israel want victory in the south, the people of Israel want victory in the north, the people of Israel want to stop the fuel and humanitarian policy, most of which ultimately goes to Hamas. This is not how a country that wants to win behaves,” Ben Gvir continues. [Continue reading…]