Fissures deepen in Netanyahu government over strategyless war in Gaza

There is an uproar in the Israeli government over the war in the Gaza Strip. The deep rifts were revealed this week, particularly as the defense minister publicly asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to outline a clear strategy as Israeli forces return to fight Hamas forces in areas of the Palestinian enclave they had previously believed to have “cleared” for months. The comments by Yoav Gallad, who has made it clear he will not agree to a military government in Gaza, echo the discomfort within the Israeli military at Netanyahu's lack of direction on how to govern Gaza if and when the war ends. They also brought to the fore the rift between the two centrist ministers Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, former generals of the Israeli army, who supported the position of the defense minister, on the one hand, and the far-right, ultra-Orthodox, nationalist parties, led by the minister Finance Bezalel Smotrich and […]
Source: News Beast

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