Ben Gvir Labels Deal as ’Disaster’, Slams War Cabinet ‘Idiocy’

By Staff, Agencies

Zionist minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed the deal that will see captives held by Hamas in Gaza exchanged for Palestinian detainees held in ‘Israeli’ occupation prisons and warned that any such deal would end in “disaster.”

Speaking to Channel 14 on Tuesday, the extremist minister, who heads the far-right ‘Otzma Yehudit’ party, addressed the reports that ‘Israel’ was close to finalizing a deal that would see some 50 ‘Israelis’ — most likely mothers and children — freed from Gaza, where they have been held for over six weeks along with some 190 others.

“I am very upset because they’re now talking about some kind of deal,” Ben Gvir told the news outlet. “I am disturbed because we are once again being divided and once again, we are not being told the truth. And once again, we are being pushed to the side. The rumors are that the ‘Israel’ is once again going to make a very, very big mistake in the style of the Shalit deal.”

“You remember that we released Gilad Shalit, we let out [Hamas Leader Yehya] Sinwar and his friends and brought this trouble upon ourselves,” Ben Gvir added.

The deal referred to by Ben Gvir took place in 2011 and saw the Zionist regime release 1,027 security prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas in 2006 while serving in the ‘Israel’ occupation military.

After declaring to Channel 14 that the rumored deal “will bring us to disaster,” Ben Gvir criticized ‘Israel’s’ war cabinet, which is made up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, War Minister Yoav Gallant and minister without a portfolio Benny Gantz, who joined the government early in the war in order to join the war cabinet. In addition, MK Gadi Eisenkot serves as an observer in the cabinet.

“There is another thing, and that’s the concept that guides the war cabinet… they talked about a deal of 80 [captives], dropped it to 70, then dropped it to 50,” Ben Gvir said. “They said they wouldn’t let food enter, then after that, they said they wouldn’t let fuel enter, and now they have fuel.”

Ben Gvir also slammed the cabinet for the decision made last week to allow limited but regular fuel deliveries to enter the Strip for the first time since October 7.

“I’m asking how we can allow this. This is idiocy! It’s delusional! Sadly, Gantz and Eisenkot are leading the cabinet down bad paths,” he concluded.