Last night, the so-called Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, instructed the Prison Service to start implementing his decision to reduce visits by the families of Palestinian prisoners from once a month to once every two months.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the Commissioner of the Prison Service, Katy Perry, received a letter from Ben Gvir asking her to implement the decision, despite the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had denied the existence of such a decision, which he said would be taken after holding a special session of the Cabinet in this regard. Although the National Security Council in Netanyahu's office instructed not to implement the order to the competent authorities, including the Prison Service.

According to the Hebrew site, Ben Gvir confirmed during his letter to Berry that he is the responsible minister, and that she must implement that, indicating that Berry will hold an evaluation session before the implementation of the decision begins.

The site considered that this message from Ben Gvir is a response from him to Netanyahu, who tried to stop this step, which puts them in direct confrontation on this issue.

Ben Gvir believes that the commissioner of the Israeli Prison Service is obligated to implement his decision, as she follows his responsibilities, considering that his step is carried out in accordance with Israeli law.

This step joins another that will begin to be implemented today related to preventing the early release of prisoners with reduced sentences from one month to 3 years, as their sentences are about to end, due to overcrowding inside prisons.

The Shin Bet and the Israeli security and military agencies oppose these steps by Ben Gvir, and publicly criticized them, considering that his steps aim to ignite the situation with the Palestinians.