JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced on Wednesday to deny a report his government had approved a shipment of ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSJERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced on Wednesday to deny a report his government had approved a shipment of weapons to Palestinian security forces after hard-right ministers in his coalition expressed outrage.
Hardline Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose party backs policies favouring nationalist settler groups, reacted angrily, demanding that Netanyahu issue a public denial, while his coalition ally, Finance Minister Bezalel Smothrich, was reported by Israeli media to be"seething". In a video he sent out on his social media accounts, Netanyahu dismissed the report as"fake news" but said the government had approved the transfer of a number of armoured vehicles, which had been agreed by the previous government.A spokesperson for the Palestinian security services, Talal Dweikat, denied the report on WAFA official news agency, saying that the Palestinian Authority received no equipment through Israel.
The incident, 30 years after the signing of the Oslo Accords that created the Palestinian Authority , underlined the tensions that have appeared in Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition amid spiralling violence across the West Bank.
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