The minister put forward a six-point proposal that includes the return of the hostages, an exit for northern Israel and measures to normalize relations with Arab countries.
The ‘number two’ of the Israeli war cabinet, Benny Gantz, has demanded from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a plan for after the military offensive on the Gaza Strip on June 8, otherwise his coalition, the Nacoinal Union Party, will do so. leave the concentration government.
Gantz has proposed that the War Cabinet adopt a six-point plan that would include the return of the hostages, a departure to northern Israel and measures to normalize relations with Arab countries. “There is something very bad in the way Israel’s leaders are handling the war,” Gantz told a news conference.
Gantz has stated that when they joined the concentration government after the October 7 attack, “there was a coherent course and mistakes were avoided”, but “recently something is wrong“. “No crucial decisions have been made. The actions necessary to guarantee victory have not been taken (…). “A small minority took the bridge of the Israeli ship and headed for a wall of rocks,” he argued.
So ‘Israel must change course here and now’. “While Israeli soldiers at the front are showing incredible courage, some of those who sent them into battle are acting cowardly and without responsibility,” he accused.
“While the hostages suffer the pain of hell In the dark tunnels of Gaza there are people immersed in meaninglessness. “While Israelis are doing everything they can, some politicians are only thinking about themselves,” he added.
In the meantime, new ones were added this Saturday demonstrations on the one hand to demand the return of the hostages kidnapped in the Gaza Strip and on the other hand to demand the resignation of the Israeli Prime Minister, whom they accuse of the current stagnation of the conflict.
On this occasion, the call in favor of the request for early elections took the form of an international event with the participation of diplomats from several countries and with representation of the flags of the nationalities of the 132 hostages held in the Palestinian enclave.
More than 800,000 displaced people
For his part, the Commissioner General of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, denounced this Saturday that there are already 800,000 Palestinians (almost half of the total population of the Gaza Strip). who have had to flee since May 6, when the Israeli military incursion began in the Rafah region, in the south of the Palestinian enclave.
Source: EITB
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