Amid the continued delay in the hostage deal, Israel’s War Cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday.
Gantz’s decision comes at a time when the war between Israel and Hamas is in its eighth month, and the situation in West Asia remains fragile.
“Netanyahu is preventing us from advancing towards true victory. That is why we are leaving the emergency government today, with a heavy heart but with full confidence,” Gantz said at a televised news conference on Sunday.
“There should be elections that will eventually establish a government that will win the trust of the people and be able to face challenges,” Gantz said, as he called for early polls in the country amid growing outrage among citizens due to the ongoing war.
“I call on Netanyahu: set an agreed election date,” he added. In response to Netanyahu’s failure to present a post-war plan for the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s ground offensive has claimed over 37,000 people since October 7, according to Gaza health officials, Gantz, last month threatened to resign from the emergency government, which was established last year to oversee the war in Gaza.
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