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April 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of National Security of Israel, the ultranationalist Itamar Ben Gvir, has demanded the expulsion of the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, for ordering the implementation of preparations to dismantle the Gal Yusef settlement, located in the West Bank and where it is A 14-year-old Israeli boy died this weekend in what the Army has classified as a terrorist attack.
“Defense Minister Gallant's decision to evacuate and destroy buildings at the Gal Yosef farm where fourteen-year-old Benjamin Achimeir was murdered, even during shiva (mourning) week, represents terrible clumsiness, moral confusion, insanity in matters of security and a violation of the dignity of the dead,” said Minister Ben Gvir, reports 'The Times of Israel'.
Thus, Ben Gvir has pointed out that instead of “establishing and approving more farms and expanding Jewish settlements”, the Israeli authorities, with the decision to dismantle the Gal Yusef outpost, choose to “surrender to the enemy.” “The time has come for the Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) to consider replacing Minister Gallant,” he concluded.
Achimeir, a native of Jerusalem, went out to herd on Friday morning from the Gal Yosef farm, in the Malachei Ha'Shalom area, and was reported missing in the middle of the afternoon. Israeli settlers attacked the West Bank towns of Al Mughayir and Abu Falá in two raids that left one Palestinian shot dead and another 30 injured, including a dozen from gunshot wounds.
Netanyahu has referred throughout the weekend to settlers attacking Palestinian areas, and has called on “all citizens of Israel” to allow the security forces “to do their job without interfering so that they can deal with as soon as possible from the abominable murderers and their assistants.
Minister Gallant himself expressed himself in the same terms and stressed the importance of the Israeli population letting the security forces work. “Acts of revenge will make the mission of our soldiers difficult. Justice should not be taken into one's own hands,” concluded the Minister of Defense.
