Ben Gvir calls on Netanyahu to bring home Doha negotiators: ‘We need to starve Hamas to death’

8 July 2025, 9:16 am

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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset on July 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring back the team negotiating a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas in indirect talks in Doha.

“We should not negotiate with those who kill our soldiers. They should be crushed to pieces, starved to death, and not resuscitated with humanitarian aid that gives them oxygen,” says Ben Gvir, who opposes a hostage deal.

“A complete siege, crush them militarily, encouraging [Palestinian] immigration and [Jewish] settlement — these are the keys to complete victory, and not a reckless deal that will release thousands of terrorists and see the IDF withdraw from territories conquered with the blood of our fighters,” Ben Gvir says.