Ben-Gvir suggests kidnapping Lebanese women and children

Itamar Ben-Gvir, a genocidal terrorist and Israeli Minister of National Security, has suggested that Israel kidnap Lebanese women and children to “break Hezbollah’s morale”.

That’s right, after he spent two years pleading with the world to help release the Israeli hostages and using it to justify carpet-bombing Gaza, Ben-Gvir now wants Israel to take even more hostages than it already has in its prisons.

By his own standards, that gives Lebanon the right to flatten the whole of Israel.

During a security cabinet meeting, where several officials backed escalating its illegal attacks in Lebanon, Ben-Gvir said:

Let’s start thinking outside the box about Hezbollah.

Conquering territory and killing many terrorists, but also detaining their women and youth and taking them to terrorist prisons.

That’s what hurts them the most.

Of course, there are two problems here.

First of all, Israel is not just targeting Hezbollah, like they keep claiming. The settler-colonial state has been systematically wiping out entire towns in Southern Lebanon for months.

Secondly, even ‘targeting Hezbollah’ is against international law, given that anyone living in occupied territory has the right to armed resistance under international law.

But of course, openly genocidal, convicted criminals such as Ben-Gvir do not give a rat’s arse about international law.

Ben-Gvir himself has been convicted of supporting Israeli terrorist organisations and having a portrait of the Israeli terrorist —  Baruch Goldstein — in his office.

Ben-Gvir is also the man behind the new law, which allows the death penalty only on Palestinians.

Only recently, Ben-Gvir joined a group of fellow illegal settlers to raid the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

Basically, Ben-Gvir is an all-around top bloke who really deserves a seat in government.

Ben-Gvir — ‘Most moral army’

Netanyahu repeatedly bangs on about Israel having the most moral army in the world.

What sort of ‘morals’ involve kidnapping women or children?

Here’s the most moral army in the world. Wanting to kidnap women and children so they can be tortured and raped in an Israeli death camps https://t.co/roVGJCiWvt

— newoods (@newenglans007) June 9, 2026

We already know that Palestinian prisoners are repeatedly raped and abused in Israeli prisons. Israelis have a strange definition of the word ‘moral’.

You know which other army regularly took hostages, and then raped and abused them? The Nazis.

But if we point that out, it’s aNTiSeMITiSm.

Since Israel and the US’s illegal attacks on Lebanon in 2024, Israeli forces have abducted several Lebanese civilians. The exact number remains unknown.

They are among 1,316 people that Israel is currently holding under the “unlawful combatant” law, including Palestinians from Gaza and Syria. This law essentially legalises incommunicado detention and enables enforced disappearance. Whilst this concept is not technically illegal, that is because international law does not formally recognise it as a distinct legal status. Instead, international humanitarian law states that:

every captured individual in a conflict must be classified strictly as either a prisoner of war (POW) or a civilian.

According to Amnesty International:

While international humanitarian law allows for the detention of individuals on imperative security grounds in situations of occupation, there must be safeguards to prevent indefinite or arbitrary detention and torture and other ill-treatment. This law blatantly fails to provide these safeguards. It enables rampant torture and, in some circumstances, institutionalizes enforced disappearance.

However, it is well recorded that Israel detains people indefinitely. This means that, like most things that Israel does, the whole concept of ‘unlawful combatants’ breaks international law.

It is clear that the only solution to end Israel’s genocidal regime is disarmament, isolation, and sanctions.

Israel is a terrorist organisation and should be sanctioned, isolated and disarmed at once https://t.co/dgEAqnpyYm

— StanleySau (@StanleySau1) June 9, 2026

Because, let’s face it, if any other country, minus the US or Israel, behaved in the same way, the rest of the world would have a serious issue with it.

When Israel does it the US govt and US media doesn’t call it terrorism.

Israel and America are #1 terrorists in the world. But are you too weak to break out of that fairytale they sell you on the daily about this country? 🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/NfCI9wQPyp

— L.A. Raider 🏴‍☠️ (@LARAIDER12) June 9, 2026

Imagine saying ‘kidnap women and children’ in the same sentence as you call someone else a terrorist. It doesn’t really work, does it?

Ben-Gvir belongs in the Hague, along with the rest of his murderous colleagues.

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