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Ben Gvir slams Israel-Lebanon deal as ‘major mistake,’ demands PM hold cabinet vote
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNational Security Minster Itamar Ben Gvir decries the US-brokered deal between Israel and Lebanon as “a major mistake,” demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bring it to the cabinet for a vote.
“While we will remain in most of the territory [of the buffer zone] for the moment, the government of Lebanon won’t disarm Hezbollah,” Ben Gvir, who heads the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, says in a statement. “Only IDF soldiers will destroy Hezbollah, no one else will do it for us.”
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