Benny Gantz and Itamar Ben-Gvir say prime minister needs to remove the threat in the north completely
Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a political backlash in Israel for the limited nature of Sunday’s airstrikes against Hezbollah, amid calls for a broader offensive in Lebanon.
The prime minister was widely blamed on Monday, from both the centre and right of the political spectrum, for the limited goal of Sunday’s air raids, which disrupted Hezbollah’s planned aerial assault, but had done nothing, the critics said, to allow up to 80,000 residents of northern border towns, displaced from northernRepresentatives of the displaced population, forced from their homes by bombing by Hezbollah in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, have said they would boycott meetings with...
Benny Gantz, a retired general, former minister in Netanyahu’s coalition and one of his main rivals, described the airstrikes as “too little, too late”. Ben-Gvir pressed ahead with his campaign to upend Israel’s policy on the site since it captured East Jerusalem in 1967, that only Muslims would be allowed to pray on the compound, while Jews would pray at the Western Wall.and told army radio on Monday that Jews had equal status with Muslims.
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