Disagreements inside the Israeli government with Ben Gvir threatens to resign if the war in Gaza stops

Extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir threatened, on Wednesday evening, to resign from the government if the war in the Gaza Strip isn’t resumed after the end of the expected humanitarian truce.

This came in statements he made during an interview with the right-wing Israeli Channel 14, hours before the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas entered into force.

Ben Gvir, head of the Jewish Power Party, said, “We heard Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) say it frankly, that the fighting will resume, but if the war stops, we will have nothing to do in the government”.

It’s noteworthy that Ben Gvir and two other ministers from his party were the only ones who voted at dawn on Wednesday against the prisoner exchange agreement.

Earlier Wednesday evening, Netanyahu pledged to continue the war in Gaza until “all the objectives are achieved, which is the return of all our abductees, the elimination of Hamas, and ensuring that the day after Hamas, no element that supports terrorism will rule Gaza”.

“Gaza won’t be a future threat to Israel,” he added.

On Wednesday, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that moves to release prisoners in the Gaza Strip will begin at ten in the morning local time every day.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation explained, quoting an unnamed political official, that it’s possible that the ceasefire in the fighting will last more than four days, during which a larger number of kidnapped people will be released.

At Wednesday morning, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that a humanitarian truce agreement had been reached in the Gaza Strip, between Israel and Hamas, through joint mediation with Egypt and the United States, the timing of which will be announced within 24 hours.

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the agreement includes the exchange of 50 Israeli prisoners, including civilian women and children, in the Gaza Strip in the first stage in exchange for the release of a number of Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli prisons, provided that the number of those released will be increased in later stages of implementing the agreement.