Without providing any evidence, Israel’s former far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has linked explosions on empty buses in Tel Aviv to the Gaza ceasefire, Al Jazeera reports.

In a series of posts on social media, the leader of the hard right political party Jewish Power, asked the Netanyahu government: “When the hell will you realise that you don’t make deals with the devil!”

“When the government signs reckless surrender deals with the enemy instead of raining hell on them, they gain an appetite to increase their attempts to murder Jews wholesale,” he said. “These are exactly the prices we warned about!”

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