Ben Gvir says only way to defeat Hamas is ‘through combat’ during visit to Jerusalem shooting site 

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir doubled down on earlier comments to hand out weapons to Israelis during a visit to the site of a shooting in Jerusalem. 

Comments carried by Times of Israel appeared to show Ben Gvir also saying that the shooting was proof that the only way to defeat Hamas was “through combat”. 

“This type of incident proves again how much we can’t show weakness, how much we have to speak to Hamas only through intentions, only through the war,” said Ben Gvir.