{"id":18553,"date":"2026-07-27T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/27\/itamar-ben-gvir-calls-military-action-iran-intensify-west-bank-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:00:22","slug":"itamar-ben-gvir-calls-military-action-iran-intensify-west-bank-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/27\/itamar-ben-gvir-calls-military-action-iran-intensify-west-bank-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Interior Minister Calls for Military Action Against Iran and Intensified Violence in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel\u2019s Minister of National Security, acknowledged that despite Israeli control over large parts of the Gaza Strip, the Hamas movement has not been defeated. He called for a military confrontation with Iran and increased authority for Israeli forces in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that Israeli forces control vast areas of Gaza, but these measures have so far not resulted in Hamas\u2019s defeat. These remarks come as the conflict in Gaza continues and the humanitarian crisis in the region worsens.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir also referred to what he described as &#8220;internal political pressures,&#8221; claiming that some Arab parties are trying to remove him from the ruling coalition.<\/p>\n<p>In another part of his remarks, he addressed Iran, expressing his belief that dialogue with Iranian officials should not be pursued through diplomatic channels. He claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken appropriate actions regarding Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Minister of National Security further demanded full freedom of action for Israeli military forces in the West Bank and emphasized the need to escalate operations in the area, a stance that highlights the potential for increased tensions in the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demands military action against Iran and calls for intensified Israeli military operations in the West Bank amid ongoing Gaza conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}