Tensions flared during a Monday morning session of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee when some family members of the hostages demanded that MK Itamar Ben Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) voice his support for the ongoing deal.
Ben Gvir refused, asserting, “This deal is reckless; this deal will cost us in blood.”
MK Simon Davidson retorted sharply, “You did not serve in the IDF.”
Ben Gvir defended himself, saying, “The leftists didn’t let me. My mother was an officer, my son serves in an elite unit, risking his life for the nation of Israel. But the deal is reckless and will bring disaster upon us.”
Earlier this month, ministers and MKs from Otzma Yehudit took a dramatic stand by submitting resignation letters in protest of the government’s decision to approve the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, which includes releasing hundreds of imprisoned terrorists.
Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir, Yitzchok Wasserlauf, and Amichai Eliyahu handed in their resignation letters to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. Additionally, MKs Zvika Fogel, Limor Son Har-Melech, and Yitzchok Kreuzer resigned from their roles on various Knesset committees, notifying the coalition chairman of their decisions.
The party explained their collective resignation by stating it was “in light of the approval of the reckless agreement with the terrorist organization Hamas, the release of hundreds of murderers who shed the blood of men, women and children – who are also being released to Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, while renouncing the IDF’s achievements in the war, the withdrawal of IDF forces from the Gaza Strip and the cessation of fighting in Gaza, in an agreement that constitutes a surrender to Hamas.”
{Matzav.com}