Just as the ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza was about to take effect, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, pulled the plug on his government position Sunday morning, but there is a strong,

The first-stage ceasefire and hostage deal approved by Israel's cabinet on Saturday is a "complete victory for terrorism," Itamar Ben-Gvir said.

Israel’s far-right national security minister resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet to express his disapproval of the Gaza ceasefire deal

Itamar Ben-Gvir says he will return to Cabinet if the war against Hamas resumes ‘with full force’ to achieve its ‘decisive goals’

"In the past year, through our political power, we succeeded in preventing this deal from moving forward, time and time again," he noted.

The Israeli Security Cabinet voted on Friday to approve the hostage deal with Hamas. Only Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich voted against the deal.

Gvir, claimed to have scuppered similar agreements over the past year. But, the prime minister has blamed Hamas for the failures.

Gvir, has resigned from the country’s ruling coalition in protest against the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, his Jewish Power party announced on Sunday. In a statement, the party called the ceasefire deal a "capitulation to Hamas" and criticised the "release of hundreds of murderers" and the "renouncing of the [Israeli military’s] achievements in the war" in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and end the war in Gaza, which has raged for more than a year.

In his resignation letter to Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir criticized the Gaza ceasefire deal as a surrender to terror that crosses all ideological red lines.

He added, "Throughout this period, if Hamas had given a positive response ... on Tuesday evening to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's claim that he had prevented the advancement ...

It is not too late. We're about to attend a government meeting, and we have the authority to halt this transaction,' Ben-Gvir says in video statement following Security Cabinet approval of deal - Anad