Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dissolved the war cabinet, a mechanism created on October 11 last year to make decisions about the military operation in the Gaza Strip, as confirmed by official sources this Monday (17) to EFE Agency.
The dissolution of the war cabinet comes just a week after the leader of the National Unity party, retired general Benny Gantz, and his partner Gadi Eisenkot left the body due to their disagreements with Netanyahu.
Sensitive decisions about the war will be taken from now on in a smaller consultation forum, in which Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will participate; and Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer; the head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, and the orthodox leader of the Shas party, Arieh Deri, from Netanyahu’s circle of trust.
The new system prevents the entry into the war power circle of the two partners from the most right wing of Netanyahu’s government, the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, and the head of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich.
“The time has come to make bold decisions, achieve real deterrence and provide security for residents of the north, the south and Israel as a whole,” Ben Gvir wrote in a letter after Gantz’s dismissal, demonstrating his intention to enter the cabinet .
The minister supports, among other points, the entry of Israeli troops into Lebanon in the context of the escalation of violence with Hezbollah since October 8.
Netanyahu, Gallant and Gantz were the only ones with votes in the recently dissolved war cabinet, while Eisenkot, Deri and Dermer were observer members.
With the departure of Gantz and Eisenkot, the cabinet was condemned to this dissolution, which takes the management of the war to a decision-making system like that established in Israel in the days following the Hamas attack, in which 1,200 people died.
Gantz and Eisenkot, both former chiefs of the General Staff, are members of the center-right National Unity party, which left the opposition and joined the emergency government created by Netanyahu as a result of the war, but left that Executive last week due to to disagreements with the prime minister over his management of the crisis, especially due to the absence of a post-war plan for Gaza.
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