Yesterday he canceled the speech scheduled for the evening, after the IDF raid which rescued four Israeli hostages. Today, Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from the Emergency Cabinet, stressing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “preventing us from achieving real victory.”
After threatening to leave last month due to the lack of a post-conflict strategy for the Gaza Strip, the president of National Unity made his decision official in a speech to the media: “We leave the government of national unity with a heavy heart.” .
His party had joined the coalition after October 7 for the good of the country, even though “we knew it was a bad government” and has since seen strategic considerations put aside for political reasons, Gantz explained. The people of Israel deserve more than “empty promises,” he continues, saying that “real victory” means the return of the hostages, the replacement of Hamas as the governing body in Gaza and the creation of a regional alliance against Iran. “Unfortunately, Netanyahu is preventing us from achieving a real victory,” he further underlined.
In announcing his resignation from the government, Gantz asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to set an agreed date for the elections. “It is appropriate that in the autumn, a year after the disaster, we go to elections that will ultimately establish a government that will win the trust of the people and be able to face the challenges [di Israele]”, he has declared. “I ask Netanyahu to set an agreed date for the elections. Don’t let our people be torn to pieces.”
