Key Takeaways
- Benny Gantz resigned from Netanyahu’s emergency government over Gaza conflict handling.
- Gantz called on Netanyahu to set a date for early elections.
- The condition for not resigning was a new plan for a military operation in the Gaza Strip by June 8.
Jerusalem: Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said that he had decided to quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government over its handling of the Gaza conflict.
“Netanyahu is preventing us from advancing toward true victory. That is why we are leaving the emergency government today, with a heavy heart but with full confidence,” Gantz said in a televised address on Sunday.
Gantz also called on Netanyahu to set a date for early elections.
In mid-May, Gantz said he would resign from the emergency government if a new plan for a military operation in the Gaza Strip wasn’t adopted by June 8.
