Inside West Financial institution district below harsh Israeli lockdown since Hamas assault

Among the many Israeli settlers dwelling in H2, within the hardline Kiryat Arba settlement, is Israel’s far-right nationwide safety minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. On Thursday, Ben Gvir, who has personally overseen the distribution of hundreds of recent rifles to West Financial institution settlers since October seventh, mentioned that Israel ought to take the identical method to the occupied territory that it was taking in Gaza, the place greater than 11,000 Palestinians have now been killed. “Containment will blow up in our faces,” Ben Gvir mentioned, of the West Financial institution. “Similar to it did in Gaza.”