Ben-Gvir call to kill Palestinian inmates reflects heinous criminal mentality

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad condemns Israeli hard-line minister’s call for the
execution of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

By Presstv

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has vehemently condemned Israeli hard-line
minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s remarks, who recently called for the execution of
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails by shooting them in the head.  In a
Sunday statement, the Palestinian resistance movement said the remarks made by
“the Nazi Itamar Ben-Gvir … reflect a heinous criminal mentality based on
bloodshed.”

The Islamic Jihad added that the extremist Israeli minister’s call was in line
with his previous policies against Palestinian inmates, including depriving
them of food, water,and medicine, and practicing the most brutal forms of
systematic torture against them. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad noted that
Ben-Gvir’s policies are a source of “disgrace for all those who deal with,
support, and remain silent in the face of the crimes of the Zionist entity”
against Palestinians. “Our Palestinian people will face these criminal policies
and the endangerment of our prisoners' lives with all strength, steadfastness,
and commitment to resistance,” the movement said.

It concluded by adding, “The resistance forces will not abandon our brave
prisoners in the hands of murderers and criminals.” The Islamic Jihad’s
statement came after Ben-Gvir was seen in a video statement as saying that
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, must be killed with a “shot to the
head.”

He also urged the regime’s lawmakers to pass a bill that would make way for
the execution of Palestinian prisoners. The extremist minister added that
Palestinian inmates should be given just enough food to keep them alive until
the law is enacted.In March 2023, the Knesset approved the preliminary reading
of a bill that calls for the death penalty to be handed down to Palestinian
prisoners. The proposed law requires two more readings before it enters into
force.

Earlier in April, Ben-Gvir had suggested that some Palestinians could be
“killed” instead of being kidnapped during the regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.
“Why are there so many arrests? “Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me
they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for
the soldiers,” Ben-Gvir was quoted as asking the Israeli military's chief of
staff, Herzi Halevi, during a war cabinet meeting where he questioned the
necessity of the detention of a large number of Palestinians. The minister also
reportedly demanded that the army shoot Palestinian women and children in the
besieged Palestinian territory to “protect” the Israeli forces.