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Gallant calls for post-war plan from Israeli government
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has urged the government to make a decision about post-war governance in the Gaza Strip, saying he would not support open-ended Israeli military rule over the Palestinian territory.
In a televised news conference, Gallant said he had promoted a plan for a new Palestinian administration not linked to Hamas since soon after the conflict began in October but “got no response” from various Israeli cabinet forums.
Earlier in the day, Netanyahu said talking about the “day after” the war was a moot point because the war would not end until after the defeat of Hamas, a goal that he said is still elusive.
‘Calculated effort’ by Israel’s far-right ministers to push ‘Nakba’ in Gaza
An Israeli journalist says the far right is using the October 7 Hamas attack “as an opportunity to launch a new Nakba” in Gaza.
“Unfortunately in this war, we’re seeing too many Israeli politicians saying this should be repeated. It’s being used as a political tool to threaten the Palestinians with another expulsion,” said Meron Rapoport, who writes for +972 magazine and is an editor at Local Call.
He said the language used by some of the hardline politicians about pushing Palestinians out of the area is because of “frustration that they won’t leave”.
“I think there was a calculated effort to bring these terms into the political discourse. How successful they are? It is a question,” Rapoport said.
Netanyahu and Gallant exchange barbs
In a message directed at Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Netanyahu said, “I am not prepared to exchange Hamastan for Fatahstan. The first thing I did after October 7 was order the army to destroy Hamas … The first condition for ‘the day after’ is to eliminate Hamas – with no excuses.”
Far-right Israeli ministers take aim at Gallant for comments on post-war Gaza
Comments from Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant saying he would not support open-ended Israeli military rule over Gaza have placed him in the crosshairs of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, both members of Israel’s hard right
“From Gallant’s point of view, there is no difference between whether Gaza is controlled by [Israeli] soldiers, and whether Hamas murderers control it,” Ben-Gvir said in an X post.
“This is the essence of the concept of a defense minister who failed on October 7, and continues to fail even now. Such a defense minister must be replaced in order to achieve the goals of the war.”
In his comments, Gallant also said he has repeatedly been ignored by the members of the Israeli government when he asked them to formulate a plan for post-war governance in the Gaza Strip and Smotrich appeared to take issue with that claim, as well.
“Defense Minister Gallant announced today his support for the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state as a reward for terrorism and Hamas for the most terrible massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust”, he said in his own X post.
“I demand that the Prime Minister immediately bring to the government a decision on denying any involvement of the PA in the Gaza Strip and then demand that Gallant choose between implementing the government’s policy and [resigning],” he continued.
Israeli opposition leader says gov’t is losing control
Yair Lapid has said that as long as the Netanyahu government is in power, Israel will not be able to win the war in Gaza.
His comments came after Defence Minister Yoav Gallant rejected the possibility of Israeli civil or military governance of post-war Gaza.
“The government has lost control,” Lapid wrote in a post on X. “Soldiers are being killed every day in Gaza and they fight among themselves on television. The cabinet is disassembled and non-functional. Ministers protest in front of cabinet meetings.”
“One cabinet sends humanitarian aid convoys and the other burns them,” he added. “Relations with the US are collapsing, the middle class is collapsing, they have lost the north”.
“We can’t go on like this. We will not win with this government.”
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