National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir addressed claims that his actions and statements throughout the war have led to harsher treatment of hostages by Hamas. "The entire left-wing campaign against me, which echoes Hamas' intentions, won't help them," Ben Gvir wrote on X, "Today every terrorist knows that Ben Gvir's prisons are no longer a summer camp but hell. And it's clear why they're going wild, because I've ended the parties and privileges." According to him, "Even the Shin Bet admits this is deterring them, and the plummeting number of attacks proves it."