Itamar Ben-Gvir urges Bezalel Smotrich: "Let's block the ‘surrender deal’ with Hamas" 

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join forces on Tuesday morning to express strong opposition to the hostage deal.

"The deal that is taking shape is a deal of surrender to Hamas," Ben-Gvir declared. "Over the past year, using our political power, we have succeeded in preventing this deal from being implemented, time after time. Since then, however, other parties have been added to the government, who now support the deal, and we are no longer a tipping point. This means that the prime minister will refrain from signing the deal only if the force that stands against it is large enough and does not allow him to do so."

He turned to Minister Smotrich and said: "I call on my colleague, Minister Bezalel Smotrich, to join me and cooperate together against a deal of surrender to Hamas. Otzma Yehudit alone does not have the ability to prevent the deal, I suggest that we go together to the prime minister and inform him that if he passes the deal we will resign from the government."

"I emphasize that even if we are in the opposition, we will not bring down the prime minister, but this cooperation is our only way to prevent the surrender deal, to prevent the terrible deal and to make sure that the deaths of hundreds of soldiers were not in vain," Ben-Gvir said.

* Arutz 7 contributed to this article.