Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir threatened to withdraw from the government if it concluded a new truce agreement with Hamas, considering that it would mean the collapse of Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Ben Gvir, the far-right partner in the government, who belongs to the Jewish Power Party, threatened today (Tuesday) to withdraw from the government due to any attempt to conclude an “uncalculated” agreement with the Hamas movement to return hostages it has been holding in Gaza since the attack of last October 7.

He said on the “X” social media platform (formerly Twitter): “Any uncalculated agreement equals the dismantling of the government.”

Media reports reported that Israel was considering, with Qatari and Egyptian mediation, a long-term cessation of its military operations in the Gaza Strip.

It is noteworthy that the Jewish Power Party occupies 6 seats out of 64 seats that have supported Netanyahu’s far-right coalition in parliament, which consists of 120 seats since before the Gaza War.

After the outbreak of the war, Netanyahu brought the centrist National Unity Party, which holds 12 seats in the Knesset, into the emergency government.

Ben Gvir and another partner in the ultra-nationalist coalition, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from the Religious Zionist Party, expressed their anger at being excluded from Netanyahu’s mini-council responsible for making decisions regarding the war.

Ben Gvir and Smotrich demanded not to stop military operations and resettlement in Gaza, from which Israel withdrew in 2005.

Netanyahu ruled out rebuilding Jewish settlements there, but said that Gaza would be under Israel's security control after the war