Three days before the massacre: Ben Gvir's warning in the Gaza envelope revealed

The Otzma Yehudit party released footage of Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaking with local security coordinators in Nahal Oz on October 4, 2023, three days before the October 7 massacre. In the footage, Ben Gvir is heard warning against avoiding confrontation with Hamas and criticizing the policy of containment along the Gaza border. In his remarks, he said: "There is a large part of the government that wants to avoid confrontation. I am among those who think we need to reach a confrontation, because if we don't reach a confrontation today, we will reach it in 10 or 15 years, when they have 10 times more missiles." He added: "If they approach the fence and try to harm the State of Israel, we shouldn't throw gas at them, we should shoot them." The article notes that one of the security coordinators was killed three days later, and another was seriously wounded.