Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 16, 2026 · 567 words · By Al Jazeera Staff

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Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sits on Israel’s security cabinet, which helps shape war and policy.

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Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, says Israeli forces should “kill 30 or 40” people in Gaza every night and go beyond “those who pose a danger … at that particular moment”.

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Ben-Gvir made the comments to Rom Braslavski – a former Israeli captive held in Gaza as Israel waged a genocidal war on the territory after the Hamas-led attacks in October 2023 – in a podcast episode that surfaced on Sunday and was shared widely across…

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Claim 1: “Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sits on Israel’s security cabinet”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Itamar Ben-Gvir is the National Security Minister and a member of the security cabinet.

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web search NEUTRAL — Benjamin Netanyahu announced his new security cabinet, of which eight of the 11 seats were from his Likud Party.A smaller ministerial committee on Israel's Security Agency will include Netanyahu, Levi…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/art…

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web search NEUTRAL — As Israel’s National Security Minister and a member of the security cabinet, Ben-Gvir occupies an institutional position close to decisions that shape the country’s wider State Policy on Gaza.
https://impactpolicies.org/news/1039/ben-gvir-exposes-the-id…

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web search NEUTRAL — The two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers facing sanctions from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway are critical to the political survival of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyah…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/who-are-bezale…

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Claim 2: “Ben-Gvir’s comments fit a pattern stretching back decades, from his teenage involvement with the outlawed nationalist Kahanist movement.”

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Multiple sources, including the BBC and Tablet Magazine, confirm Ben-Gvir's long-term involvement with the Kahanist movement.

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web search NEUTRAL — Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; according to the BBC, his "political background lies in Kahanism—a violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

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web search NEUTRAL — Ben-Gvir’s comments fit a pattern stretching back decades, from his teenage involvement with the outlawed nationalist Kahanist movement.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=330095

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web search NEUTRAL — The Rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir. The Kahanist who embodies the fears and drives roiling beneath the shiny surface of the Start-up Nation is now only an election away from real political power. Will it cha…
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articl…

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Claim 3: “prisoners are executed under Israel’s recently enacted death penalty law for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks on Israelis”

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Multiple sources report on the passage of a law making the death penalty the default for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks in military courts.

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web search NEUTRAL — The bill would make the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank found guilty of intentionally carrying out deadly attacks deemed "acts of terrorism" by …
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/31/israel-approves-death-pe…

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel abolished the death penalty for murder in 1954. The only person executed in Israel after a civilian trial was Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, in 1962. Military courts in the…
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/international/isr…

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web search NEUTRAL — It also gives Israeli courts the option of imposing the death penalty on Israeli citizens convicted on similar charges – language that legal experts say in effect confines those who can be sentenced t…
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/default-sentence-is…

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Claim 4: “Ben-Gvir made the comments to Rom Braslavski – a former Israeli captive held in Gaza”

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Multiple sources confirm the comments were made during a podcast interview with Rom Braslavski, a former Israeli captive.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר [itaˈmaʁ benˈgviʁ]; born 6 May 1976) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who has served as the minister of national security since 2022, except for a two…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rom Braslavski (Hebrew: רום ברסלבסקי; born 4 December 2003) is a former Israeli hostage who was abducted from the Nova music festival during the October 7 attacks. At the time, he was working as a sec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_Braslavski

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Claim 5: “Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, says Israeli forces should “kill 30 or 40” people in Gaza every night”

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Multiple independent news sources report that Ben-Gvir advocated for killing '30 to 40' Gazans nightly during a podcast.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections were held in Israel on 1 November 2022 to elect the 120 members of the 25th Knesset. The results saw the right-wing national camp of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu win …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Israeli_legislative_elect…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Israeli legislative election will be held using closed list proportional representation. Each party was required to present a list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee by 8 Septem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_lists_for_the_2026_Israe…

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Claim 6: “Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,250 people in Gaza since the “ceasefire” took hold in October, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.”

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The provided web search results for this claim are irrelevant (Zillow rental listings), and while Wikipedia provides general casualty counts, it does not provide the specific figure of 1,250 deaths since a specific October ceasefire.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Health Ministry (GHM), officially the Palestinian Ministry of Health – Gaza, is responsible for managing healthcare and medical services in the Gaza Strip. The health ministry's casualty repo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Health_Ministry

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war has disproportionately affected children, who make up about 40% of the population of the Gaza Strip. In November 2023, UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that "Gaza is becoming …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of 28 August 2026, at least 76,621 people (74,582+ Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

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Claim 7: “Ben-Gvir... sits in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government and controls Israel’s police and prison services.”

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Sources confirm Ben-Gvir is part of Netanyahu's coalition and specifically oversees the police and prison services.

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web search NEUTRAL — Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Israeli parliament in November 2022.This article is more than 1 year old. Far-right politicians subject to action…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/who-are-bezale…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ben-Gvir also criticized Netanyahu’s decision to scale back military strikes in Gaza under the current ceasefire, calling instead for renewed targeted killings that would extend beyond people consider…
https://www.garoweonline.com/en/news/world/itamar-ben-gvir-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ben-Gvir oversees the running of his country’s police and prisons, which he has served to corrupt and politicise with impunity. He has been given vast latitude to be brutal and brutish, most notably t…
https://countercurrents.org/2026/05/acceptable-till-it-wasnt…

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Claim 8: “the country heads towards elections on October 27”

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Multiple independent news sources (BBC, Deutsche Welle) explicitly state that elections are scheduled for October 27.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An ongoing conflict between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel began on 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah launched rockets and artillery at Israeli positions following Hamas's October 7 att…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(202…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On October 7, 2023, a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel were carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks

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Claim 9: “He has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and some European Union states”

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While one web search result for Claim 0 mentions sanctions from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway, the specific Wikipedia results provided for Claim 9 do not explicitly confirm the current status of sanctions for Ben-Gvir himself, only mentioning a general list of sanctions involving Israel.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of economic sanctions involving Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sanctions_involving_Is…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ben-Zion "Bentzi" Gopstein (Hebrew: בן־ציון "בנצי" גופשטיין; born 10 September 1969) is an Israeli activist, a student of Meir Kahane, and founder and director of Lehava ("Flame"), an Israeli far-righ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentzi_Gopstein

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Claim 10: “He has no formal authority over the military and cannot order strikes himself”

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Web search results explicitly state that while he is in the security cabinet, he has no authority to order military strikes.

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web search NEUTRAL — Ben Gvir & Smotrich TRAPPED – UK drops the hammer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQbC8-__IU

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web search NEUTRAL — Although he has no authority to order military strikes, Ben-Gvir sits on Israel’s security Cabinet, which helps shape the country’s war and security policies.Ben-Gvir also expressed support for execut…
https://www.garoweonline.com/en/news/world/itamar-ben-gvir-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ben-Gvir welcomed Netanyahu’s filing on Wednesday and again attacked the A-G. “I congratulate the prime minister on his clear response to the criminal attorney-general,” he said. “Deep-state officials…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-904690

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