Benny Gantz’s threat to withdraw his opposition party from coalition calls into question future of government
Benny Gantz, leader of National Unity party, called for a plan for post-war governance of Gaza to be approved by 8 June.Benny Gantz, leader of National Unity party, called for a plan for post-war governance of Gaza to be approved by 8 June.The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government.
“Personal and political considerations have begun to enter the most sacred parts of Israel’s defence,” Gantz told reporters. On Thursday, defence minister Yoav Gallant challenged Netanyahu over the same issue, saying he would not permit any solution where Israeli military or civil governance were in the territory. Gallant’s comments were immediately backed by his fellow minister Gantz, Netanyahu’s main political rival in the emergency coalition, plunging Israel’s leadership into a highly public row.
Now with much of Gaza in ruins, the humanitarian crisis drawing criticism from even Israel’s close ally the US, and Hamas’s leaders on the ground neither killed nor captured, criticism of how Netanyahu is conducting the war is increasingly fierce and public. “We are forced to go back and fight again in the same areas, losing soldiers, losing in the international arena, destroying relations with the US, the economy is collapsing,” he told the Reshet Bet radio station. “Show me one thing we are succeeding in.”For months, Netanyahu has dodged questions about what will come after the war, saying Israel must focus on “destroying Hamas”.
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