Ben Gvir calls on PM to work toward ‘toppling the Palestinian Authority’

By Sam Sokol 10 August 2025, 10:58 am

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says that he will appeal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the next cabinet meeting to implement “immediate” measures “to topple the Palestinian Authority.”

“This must be the response to the terrorist Abu Mazen’s fantasies of a ‘Palestinian state’ — crushing the terror authority at whose head he stands,” Ben Gvir tweets.

The far right minister’s statement comes on the heels of a report by the Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed newspaper that Abbas is weighing unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state during the UN General Assembly this September.

Several countries have announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state during the annual diplomatic gathering in New York.