Urgent.. The Israeli Defense Minister challenges "Netanyahu" Regarding the post-war situation in Gaza

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a public challenge over post-war plans in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday from his Defense Minister Yoav Galant, who pledged to oppose any long-term military rule by Israel over the devastated Palestinian Gaza Strip.

Gallant challenges Netanyahu

The televised statement by Defense Minister Yoav Galant represents the largest opposition from within the highest levels in Israel Against Netanyahu during the 7-month, multi-front conflict that has caused political divisions at home and abroad.

Netanyahu, in a response that did not explicitly mention his name, hinted that the retired admiral was fabricating "excuses" Hamas had not yet been destroyed in a conflict that had now lasted eight months.

But it soon appeared that the extremist prime minister had been bypassed within his war cabinet: Voting in the Zionist War Council, unlike Netanyahu and Gallant, the Defense Minister “spoke the truth.”

While Gallant repeated the Netanyahu government’s allegations that In defeating Hamas and recovering the remaining prisoners from the Operation Flood Al-Aqsa attack launched by the Palestinian resistance against the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine last October 7, he said: These goals must be completed by laying the foundation for an alternative Palestinian rule.

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Gallant said: “We must dismantle Hamas’ ability to rule in Gaza, and the key to achieving this goal is military action and establishing an alternative to rule in Gaza.”

“In the absence of such an alternative, only two negative options remain: Hamas rule in Gaza or Israeli military rule in Gaza,” he added, saying he would oppose the latter scenario and urging Netanyahu to formally abandon it. p>

Gallant said that he had tried since last October to promote a plan aimed at establishing “non-hostile Palestinian rule.” An alternative to Hamas, but did not receive any response from the Israeli government.

Gallant’s surprise attack, in a previously announced press conference and broadcast live on Israeli television and radio, constituted a surprise warning in March 2023 that the uproar over the judicial reform implemented by Netanyahu threatened military cohesion.

At that time, Netanyahu announced the dismissal of Gallant, but he backed down amid a flood of demonstrations in the streets.&nbsp ;

Some defense analysts believe that Gallant’s predictions confirmed Hamas’s ability to surprise Israeli forces after a few months.

Asked on Wednesday if he was concerned that he might face ouster again, Gallant said: “I don’t blame anyone in a democracy.” “And I think it is appropriate for anyone, especially the Secretary of Defense who is in office, to make a decision.” , which sought to exploit the war in a role for the internationally supported Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited rule in the occupied West Bank.

Netanyahu rejected this, describing the Palestinian Authority as a hostile entity, and repeated this. The position is in a video statement he posted on social media an hour after Gallant’s statements.

Netanyahu said that any move to form an alternative government in Gaza requires eliminating Hamas first, and he concluded his speech by demanding By striving to achieve this goal “without excuses”.

The ruling coalition led by Netanyahu includes extremist nationalist partners who want to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and establish new Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.

These criminals sometimes argued with Galant, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, about politics.

Netanyahu said that Israel will maintain comprehensive security control over Gaza after the war for the foreseeable future.

He stopped short of describing this scenario as an occupation – a situation that Washington does not want to see, indicating its opposition to Israeli settlement in the region.

Over the past week, the forces returned Israeli territory extends to some areas in northern Gaza that it invaded and then withdrew from in the first half of the war.

Israel describes the new missions as a planned campaign of repression against the efforts of Hamas fighters to reorganize their ranks, while the Palestinians see evidence of The insistence of the militants.

In a press conference on Tuesday, the chief Israeli military spokesman, Admiral Daniel Hagari, was asked whether the absence of a post-Hamas strategy in Gaza increases the complexity of operations.

He answered: " There is no doubt that the existence of an alternative to Hamas would generate pressure on Hamas, but this is a question at the government level.”

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