Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has expressed deep concern about the prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement in Gaza with Hamas, which was approved by the Security Cabinet earlier in the day, Anadolu reports.

“I feel even more alarmed,” Ben-Gvir said in a video statement released following the meeting. “If I was horrified by the deal yesterday, today, after learning more details—including the release of ‘terrorists’ serving life sentences to Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria (the occupied West Bank)—my concerns have grown.”

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