Extreme conflict in the Israeli government over the future of Gaza after the war. After Defense Minister Yov Gallant, it was Benny Gantz who started the dust by giving the prime minister an ultimatum: if a general action plan on Gaza is not formalized by June 8, which includes the political future of the Strip « in a US-EU-Arab direction”, the centrist leader will leave the emergency executive. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction was immediate: “Instead of giving ultimatums to Hamas, Gantz gives it to me, putting in vain conditions that leave Hamas intact and want Israel’s defeat.” “You have to choose, if you don’t choose we will leave the government”, was the peremptory message addressed to Bibi by Gantz, during a press conference announced in the early afternoon.
The request to the leadership is to “see the big picture”, drawing up a six-point plan to be approved within a few weeks. The main demands: “bring back the hostages, overthrow Hamas and demilitarize Gaza.” And above all, choose “a direction with the United States, the EU, the Arabs and the Palestinians that lays the foundations of a future alternative to Gaza that is neither Hamas nor Abu Mazen.” It is precisely this, the post-conflict structure of the Strip, that is the most divisive issue in the executive branch. Gantz followed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who in recent days had publicly attacked the prime minister for his “indecision” regarding the post-war period in the Strip. The leader of the centrists went down even harder. Accusing “some of the politicians of behaving in a cowardly manner thinking only of themselves”: a reference to Netanyahu, but also probably to the governing team of the Orthodox right, which, like the prime minister, does not want to hear about the Palestinian government in Gaza. Negotiating sources said negotiations for the release of more hostages had been suspended. In particular, very large differences would remain on the deadline for the end of the war and on Israel’s veto on the names of terrorists whose release Hamas could request. The only news is that the body of another hostage, Ron Benjamin, killed on October 7, was recovered. The operation of the Israeli forces is the same one that allowed three other bodies to be brought home yesterday, including that of the young German-Israeli Shani Louk, one of the symbolic prisoners of the Hamas attack.
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