War cabinet member Benny Gantz has threatened to leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if there is no plan for post-war order in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanded on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war with Hamas. Gantz told a press conference he wanted the war cabinet to form a six-point plan by 8 June. If his expectations are not met, he said, he will withdraw his centrist party from the conservative premier's broadened emergency coalition.
"Personal and political considerations have begun to penetrate the Holy of Holies of Israel's national security," Gantz said. "A small minority has seized the bridge of the Israeli ship and is piloting it toward the rocky shoal." Gantz said his proposed six-point plan would include bringing a temporary US-European-Arab-Palestinian system of civil administration for Gaza while Israel retains security control.
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