From Ben Gvir says Hamas has tried to kill him 5 times, vows to keep up heavy handed treatment of Palestinian prisoners
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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir thanks the Shin Bet security service, the Israel Prison Service, police and other agencies for working to protect him following the revelation of a Hamas plot to assassinate him.
“I will not be deterred and I will not be afraid! Hamas has already tried to eliminate me five times, and each time they failed, this time too,” he says in a video statement, praising God and expressing thanks for “the efforts of the security forces.”
“I will continue to lead a hardline policy in Israel’s prisons against terror, demand a complete victory in Gaza, and the erasure of Hamas from the map. The terrorists must know: instead of them harming us – we will harm them, everywhere and at any time,” Ben Gvir declares.
Ben Gvir’s statement comes after the Shin Bet announced that it had thwarted a plot by a Hamas cell in the West Bank to assassinate the far right minister. The would-be assassins sought to kill the minister with explosive-laden drones, according to the agency’s statement. The suspects, arrested by security forces in recent weeks, are operatives in a Hebron-based Hamas cell.
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