Ben Gvir in New Bill: "Ban on Transferring Humanitarian Aid to Gaza"

Otzma Yehudit chairman, MK Itamar Ben Gvir, along with MKs Limor Son Har-Melech and Yitzhak Kroizer, submitted tonight (Monday) a bill that would completely prevent the transfer of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

The bill's explanatory notes state that "at the beginning of the war, Israel prevented all humanitarian aid, which severely hurt the organization and enabled the first hostage deal between Israel and the Hamas terror organization. This deal included a mutual ceasefire in Gaza, release of terrorists, and allowing fuel and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, during which 80 hostages were released."

The explanation continues: "Since then, Israel, through IDF soldiers and heroic security forces, has been conducting ongoing fighting aimed at destroying Hamas, while simultaneously transferring humanitarian aid that allows the terror organization 'oxygen' to continue controlling the area, reorganize repeatedly, and above all survive. Since the ground operation began, Israel has counted over 400 heroic casualties, thousands of wounded alongside dozens of hostages still in Gaza, when it's clear to everyone that stopping humanitarian aid and conditioning it on the release of all hostages is the only pressure tool that will lead Hamas to act accordingly."

"Therefore," it concludes, "it is proposed that Israel will not be able to transfer humanitarian aid on its behalf or on behalf of others, in any form or way, to an area controlled by an enemy state or terrorist organization, as long as hostages are held in their territory."

Otzma Yehudit chairman, MK Itamar Ben Gvir said that "throughout the year we were told that humanitarian aid also reaches the hostages, and now the truth has come out – it turns out the hostages didn't receive anything at all. That's why this important bill is being submitted – this is the only way to safely return our hostages, not through reckless deals."