Ben Gvir dances while attending a conference calling for rebuilding settlements in Gaza and the West Bank (Reuters)
The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" said that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and officials in his office granted licenses to carry weapons to workers in the media field in Israel.
The newspaper reported that Ben Gvir and officials in his office had granted 14,000 weapons licenses without oversight since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, and that Ben Gvir’s advisor personally approved hundreds of applications, some of which were submitted by media figures, to obtain a weapons license. Adding that the Israeli Attorney General's Office is currently considering opening a criminal investigation into this case.
Ben Gvir facilitated the procedures for obtaining licenses to carry weapons for Israelis in the wake of the Al-Aqsa flood, and many Israelis appeared walking around with weapons in public places.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli Ministry of National Security rushed after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation to cancel the restrictive conditions, expand the minimum conditions for issuing a license to carry weapons, grant facilities for issuing them, and shorten the period for examining applications.
The Parliamentary Security Committee had approved - in the first week of the war on Gaza - the regulations that expand the conditions and criteria for obtaining a license to carry weapons, as well as the population eligible for the licenses, which were prepared by Ben Gvir.
Source: Al Jazeera + Israeli press