MK Itamar Ben Gvir once again attracted the attention of Palestinian networks in the last day, this time following his visit to Rambam Hospital at the entrance to the hospital room of the wanted man, Daoud Zabeidi, who died today (Sunday) after being shot in an exchange of gunfire with IDF soldiers on Tuesday. Nin last Friday, an incident in which the late IDF fighter Noam Raz was killed.
Zabeidi, it will be recalled, was seriously wounded and, at the request of the Palestinians, was transferred to Israel for treatment.
"Whoever wanted to kill our fighters should not receive treatment and pampering in hospitals, he should receive death in the electric chair," MK Ben Gvir said during Zabeidi's visit last Saturday evening in protest of his hospitalization in Israel.
March in Jenin after the death of terrorist Daoud Zabeidi // Arab networks
In response, explicit threats were made against MK Ben-Gvir's life on Palestinian networks, especially those affiliated with Hamas and operating in the Gaza Strip. Inciting and rude "," must kill him ".
In the last day, his phone number has been flooded with dozens of abusive messages, and threats recorded in Arabic.
In recent months, MK Ben Gvir has been receiving close security after incitement and threats to his life by Palestinian elements increased. He is defined as threatened at level 6, the highest level that exists.
In response to the threats, MK Ben Gvir told "Israel Today": "The threats of Hamas and the Islamic Movement will not frighten me and they only encourage me to continue working for the people of Israel and the State of Israel.
I only express astonishment that with regard to all the threats coming from the territories of the country, no indictments have yet been filed even though suspects have been apprehended.
"It is not clear to me how my wife and I receive hundreds of threatening messages with signs of slaughter and illustrations of knives and axes stuck and the law enforcement system did not get its hands on the rioters and thugs."
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