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Ben Gvir urges ‘massive assault on Gaza’ after Hamas postpones hostage release: ‘We must return to war’
Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir chairs a faction meeting at the Knesset, February 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Former national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir calls for Israel to resume its campaign against Hamas in Gaza, after the terror group says it is postponing the hostage-prisoner exchange scheduled for Saturday.
The far-right lawmaker says Israel should carry out “a massive assault on Gaza, from the air and land, alongside a complete halt to humanitarian aid to the Strip, including electricity, fuel, and water, and including the bombing of aid packages that have already been brought in and are in the hands of Hamas.”
“We must return to war and destroy!” he writes in a post on X.
Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party left the coalition last month in protest of the government’s approval of the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.
