Gallant condemns ‘contemptible’ pilots clip shared and defended by Ben Gvir

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant condemns a clip — shared by some of his fellow ministers — depicting a scripted scenario of Air Force pilots refusing to help ground troops who back the government’s judicial overhaul.

“The viral video is a contemptible video that won’t achieve its goal,” Gallant says of the clip, which National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has defended and refused to delete from his Facebook page, while Culture Minister Miki Zohar deleted it and apologized.

“The IDF is an army that keeps our enemies far away but brings the nation’s sectors closer together,” he says. “Even if I don’t agree with a soldier or an officer, I repeat — they are our soldiers.”

The video was slammed earlier by IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, saying it encourages “internal incitement” and pits soldiers against one another.