Ben Gvir Backs Ex-Captive's Bid to Execute Palestinian Prisoners as 104 Have Died in Custody
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Updated · Middle East Eye · Aug 18
Ben Gvir Backs Ex-Captive's Bid to Execute Palestinian Prisoners as 104 Have Died in Custody
3 articles · Updated · Middle East Eye · Aug 18
Summary
Rom Braslavski, an ex-Israeli soldier freed from Gaza in October 2025, asked National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to let him personally execute Palestinian prisoners in a podcast interview; Ben Gvir said he would try to make it happen.
Ben Gvir, whose ministry oversees Israel's Prison Service, said Palestinian inmates "don't deserve to live" and praised their suffering, extending the interview's hardline rhetoric from prisons to Gaza.
30 to 40 Palestinians should be killed nightly in Gaza, Ben Gvir said, while again calling for expulsions and new Israeli settlements across the enclave despite reported US pressure to curb attacks.
104 Palestinian inmates have died in Israeli custody since 2023, rights groups say more than 9,000 Palestinians are detained, and Ben Gvir has already pushed measures including a death-penalty bill and a prison-moat crocodile plan blocked this month.