Political tensions in Israel have led to the country’s The war with Hamas Events in the Gaza Strip were back in the public eye on Monday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disbanded an influential group that has helped shape Israel’s war policy since Hamas launched terror attacks on Oct. 7, sparking the war.
Netanyahu dissolved the war cabinet, a coalition of political opponents formed after the Hamas attacks to promote and demonstrate unity among Israel’s warring leaders.
That unity was confirmed last week by Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s main moderate opponent. I quit my job He criticised the government and the war cabinet for failing to present any plan for governing Gaza after the war.
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The dissolved war cabinet was also formed to remove far-right ministers from the cabinet as a whole, leading many in Israel and abroad to fear that Gantz’s actions would push Netanyahu to the far right. Netanyahu formed the current coalition government. The most far-right cabinet in history — Members of Israel’s far-right parties continue to occupy key positions that will be crucial to his ability to continue to govern effectively and even retain his job.
An official from Netanyahu’s Likud party said Monday that the prime minister is forming a new small group to discuss wartime decisions. The sources said far-right government ministers would still not take part in the day-to-day running of the war, but major policy decisions on the conflict would be made by Israel’s security cabinet, which includes the far-right.
This change in leadership is Israel’s Announced a “tactical pause” The pause in fighting along a roughly 7.5-mile stretch of road in the Rafah area will take place during the day and only on one particular stretch of road near southern Gaza City, which has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks as Israel pursues the few remaining Hamas fighting forces reportedly remaining in the Palestinian enclave.
The IDF said the suspension was intended to allow more humanitarian aid to flow into the Gaza Strip through Rafah, the key border crossing with Egypt, and then be distributed by the United Nations and other organizations in the northern Gaza Strip.
After the military announced the plan, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office released a statement stressing that combat operations against Hamas would continue in Rafah city and elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.
More than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, and the bloodshed continued on Monday as Muslims around the world marked the Eid al-Adha holiday. It was a quiet holy day for thousands of families who fled the Gaza Strip, including one who spoke to a CBS News crew in Gaza who had taken refuge in a horse stable.
“It breaks my heart when I hear people eating Eid sweets,” the grandmother told our team. “I don’t even have shoes. I can’t take anything with me except my disabled daughter and my newborn grandson. I am stuck there, like I’m dead.”
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The Biden administration and Israel have accused Hamas of delaying an agreement that would secure the release of more than 70 hostages believed to still be alive in Gaza, as well as the remains of about 30, in exchange for a ceasefire. The United States said last week that Hamas was demanding several changes to the draft agreement currently being presented, some of which Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said are unacceptable.
A newly announced daily pause in fighting along the main road across southern Gaza, if maintained, could help address at least some of the overwhelming humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people as Israel continues to pursue Hamas brigades remaining in Rafah.
However, fighting around the Rafah road is expected to continue. Israeli soldier killed Over the weekend, their armored vehicle was hit by an explosion in the area.
Meanwhile, in central Gaza, Israeli artillery fire hit a house late on Sunday, killing nine people, but the tactical pause has not been applied and fighting continues there.
