Israel's war cabinet minister has resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government.
Israel's war cabinet minister has resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government. Benny Gantz last month gave the leader an 8 June deadline to present a clear day-after plan for the conflict in Gaza. His resignation comes a day after four Israeli hostages were rescued in an operation which the armed wing of Hamas - the militant group running Gaza - said has also killed three other hostages.
With Mr Gantz gone, Mr Netanyahu would lose the backing of a centrist bloc that has helped broaden support for the government in Israel and abroad, at a time of increasing diplomatic and domestic pressure eight months into the Gaza war. Israel launched a retaliatory military campaign on Gaza on 7 October, when Hamas killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and took about 250 hostages. More than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed since, according to the enclave's Hamas-run health ministry.
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