D3Itamar Ben-Gvir — National Security Minister
Five-nation sanctions: 10 June 2025; prison-conditions boasts: 2023–2025; "encourage emigration" calls: Jan 2024 onward
- “The summer camps are over” — a minister boasting about worsening prison conditions.
- Sanctioned by five Western democracies for inciting violence against Palestinians.
- Called for “encouraging the emigration” of Gaza's population while fighting aid deliveries.
As the minister overseeing Israel's prison service, Ben-Gvir publicly boasted that "the summer camps have been stopped" and that reports of "abominable conditions" for Palestinian prisoners "were true" (The New Arab, Middle East Eye), and repeatedly called to "encourage emigration" of Gazans while opposing humanitarian aid, telling a rally the answer was to "encourage voluntary emigration" (Times of Israel). On 10 June 2025 the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway imposed asset freezes and travel bans on him, their foreign ministers jointly stating he had "incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights"; the Hind Rajab Foundation has separately filed a war-crimes complaint against him with the US Department of Justice.
The record — 17 sources
Date, publication and headline for each source, as the source itself published them. Sorted by publication date. 17 of 17 dated; a blank means the publisher's page didn't expose it, and we don't guess.
| Date | Publication | Headline |
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| 2024-05-14 |  Times of Israel — Ben-Gvir calls to 'encourage emigration,' resettle Gaza | Ben Gvir calls to ‘encourage emigration,’ resettle Gaza at ultra-nationalist rally |
| 2025-06-10 |  Government of Canada — joint foreign ministers' statement on sanctions | Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom on measures targeting Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich |
| 2025-06-10 |  Al Jazeera — five nations sanction Ben-Gvir and Smotrich | Australia, Canada, NZ, UK, Norway sanction two Israeli far-right ministers |
| 2025-06-10 |  Washington Post | headline not retrievedwashingtonpost.com |
| 2025-06-10 |  CNN | UK, Canada and Western allies sanction two far-right Israeli government ministers | CNN |
| 2025-06-10 |  Middle East Eye | UK and allies sanction Israeli ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich over Gaza comments |
| 2025-06-10 |  Haaretz | U.K., others sanction Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich over settler violence |
| 2025-06-10 |  UK Government | UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence |
| 2025-06-10 |  TIME | Why the U.K. and Allies Sanctioned Israeli Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich |
| 2025-06-10 |  The Independent | UK sanctions two far-right Israeli ministers over ‘monstrous’ Gaza comments |
| 2025-06-10 |  ABC News | UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway sanction 2 far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers |
| 2025-06-10 |  LA Times | U.K. and others sanction far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers over violence in the West Bank |
| 2025-06-10 |  CBC | U.S. condemns Canada, 4 other nations over Israeli sanctions | CBC News |
| 2025-06-11 |  Euronews | Rubio criticises UK over Gaza-related sanctions on Israeli ministers |
| 2025-06-11 |  NBC News | U.K., Canada, Australia and others sanction 2 far-right Israeli ministers for 'inciting extremist violence' |
| 2025-06-11 |  The Guardian | Australia sanctions two ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers for inciting violence against Palestinians |
| 2025-06-11 | Al Jazeera | Israel’s Smotrich could paralyse Palestinian economy by ending bank waiver |