Ben Gvir refuses to make “concessions” to Gaza civilians until hostages are freed

MADRID 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Israel’s Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, refused this Friday to make “concessions” to the civilian population of Gaza until all the hostages kidnapped more than a year ago during the attacks carried out by the Islamic Resistance Movement are released ( Hamas) and other Palestinian factions on Israeli soil.

“I believe that as long as we have hostages in Gaza we should not make concessions, not even to the civilian population,” said Ben Gvir, who blamed the recent delivery of humanitarian aid on a “bad decision” by the Government and recalled that he was ” the only one” who voted against this measure, according to Israeli media.

On the other hand, he has addressed the statements made this week by the country’s attorney general, Gali Baharav Miara, who has called on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to evaluate the possibility of dismissing Ben Gvir on the grounds that “he intervenes in illegitimate way in the functioning” of the security forces. Thus, he has put on the table the possibility of demanding the prosecutor’s dismissal: “it will be her or me.”

“We are approaching the moment in which I will have no choice but to issue an ultimatum to Netanyahu on this matter. Only one of us can remain in his position. He should have left a long time ago,” he clarified a day after calling the prosecutor’s words as an “attempted coup d’état.”

According to Baharav Miara, Ben Gvir could have violated decisions and orders of the Supreme Court by interfering in the operational matters of the Police. “It appears that the minister is using his authority to make appointments and terminate the mandate of officers in a way that constitutes an illegitimate intervention,” he denounces.