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Likud MK says it’s absurd to connect Gaza strikes to efforts to appease Ben Gvir

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and members of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party give a press statement at a home in the southern city of Sderot on May 3, 2023. (Flash90)
A Likud MK says claims that Israel’s strikes on Islamic Jihad leaders in Gaza are an attempt by the government to appease far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir are “absurd.”
“It’s crazy and absurd to think anyone would time a military operation due to political pressure,” Hanoch Milwidsky says in an interview on Radio 103 FM.
“It would be a terrible thing if that were the case and it is not the case,” he says.
Ben Gvir and his Otzma Yehudit party have been boycotting the Knesset and cabinet meetings in protest of what they called the “feeble” response to rocket fire from Gaza last week.