National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said he will demand and clarify his position at today's security discussion with Prime Minister Netanyahu, calling for an aggressive deterrent response to drone incursions: 'For every drone — a missile. For every violation — fire. For every UAV — Dahiya should tremble. For every hair on the head of an IDF soldier — a thousand Hezbollah terrorists,' according to Israel Hayom.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir clarified his position ahead of today's expected security cabinet discussion with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Israel Hayom. Ben Gvir's statement, attributed to a single source at 09:15 Jerusalem time, calls for an uncompromising military response to recent drone and UAV incursions attributed to Hezbollah along the northern border. The minister explicitly invoked the 'Dahiya doctrine' — a reference to Israel's strategy of devastating retaliatory strikes on Beirut's Dahiya neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold — and threatened 'a thousand Hezbollah terrorists' for any harm to an IDF soldier. The statement comes as the security cabinet continues deliberating the operational response to ongoing aerial violations from Lebanon, a thread earlier reported by The Zioneer in the context of cabinet debates over Lebanon policy. The minister's specific demands set a maximalist position within the coalition, though the single-source report has not been independently corroborated, and the outcome of the discussion with the prime minister remains unannounced.
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