At site of missile impact in Tel Aviv, Ben Gvir vows to crack down on those who ‘incite’ against Israel

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir vows law enforcement will crack down on those who incite against Israel, after arriving at the scene of yesterday’s Iranian missile impact in Tel Aviv.

Speaking to the press alongside police chief Danny Levy and Tel Aviv District commander Haim Sargaroff, Ben Gvir praises the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the ongoing joint Israeli-US operation.

“The end of an era, we’ve lopped off the head of the snake,” he says, hailing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz for the waves of strikes against the Islamic Republic. He then turns his focus inwards, warning that police will crack down on those within Israel who “incite” against the state.

“We have a very determined police, whoever raises his head to try to incite against the State of Israel, whoever raises his head to try and harm the State of Israel, we will thrash him, we will tear his head off,” he says.

He further calls on Israelis to carry firearms with them. “I call on citizens to bear arms, those who have a firearm, to bear it,” he says.

After being hassled by a group bystanders in the liberal city who tell him to “go home,” Ben Gvir hits back at them before the cameras: “You shouted this at us before Iran — ‘go home’ — you shouted it before the prisons,” he says, referring to his campaign to significantly degrade living conditions for Palestinian security detainees.

“We’ve seen that at the end of the day, you talk while we act, and we’ve made history,” he says, referring to Khamenei’s assassination. “At the end of the day, these Nazis want to destroy us all… they want to eliminate all of us, and we will eliminate them one-by-one.”