JERUSALEM: Israel's hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pledged on Tuesday (Feb 7) to push through a five-fold increase in gun permits in the wake of a deadly attack outside a synagogue last month that killed seven people. A statement from Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power party said he had ordered t
JERUSALEM: Israel's hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pledged on Tuesday to push through a five-fold increase in gun permits in the wake of a deadly attack outside a synagogue last month that killed seven people.
Armed civilians openly carrying pistols in holsters on their hips and off-duty soldiers with their service weapons are common sights in Israel and in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank but Ben-Gvir vowed to increase the number of permits drastically after the Jan 27 synagogue attack by a Palestinian gunman.
Israeli ministers have cited the civilian's action in support of the plans to expand gun ownership, but last week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tuerk warned the plans would only lead to more violence and bloodshed.
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