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Benny Gantz has threatened to depart Israel’s emergency authorities if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t decide to a brand new plan for the battle with Hamas in Gaza and its aftermath.
In a televised assertion on Saturday night, Gantz, an opposition determine and former common who joined Netanyahu’s coalition within the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel, mentioned that his centrist Nationwide Unity occasion would depart the federal government if his calls for weren’t met by June 8.
Gantz’s ultimatum brings to a head months of tensions inside Netanyahu’s authorities over the dealing with of the battle, and comes simply days after defence minister Yoav Gallant slammed Netanyahu for the dearth of a postwar plan for Gaza, the enclave Hamas has dominated since 2007.
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