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Discord brewing within Netanyahu’s war cabinet
Within Netanyahu’s war cabinet, there are divisions. Benny Gantz, who is a war minister, and the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, have publicly accused the prime minister of not having a plan for the day after.
Netanyahu has even got senior opposition members convening to try to build another coalition against him and call for early elections. According to a lot of Israeli media reports we’re hearing, Gantz is interested in at least hearing them out. If Gantz leaves [Netanyahu’s coalition], that could well mean the end of the coalition and early elections.
However, the prime minister does have a secret weapon – that is the openly racist far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who continue to support him. As long as that happens, he [Netanyahu] does remain in power.
Israeli minister Smotrich to West Bank cities: ‘We will turn you into ruins’
The far-right Israeli security minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has threatened that Israel will destroy cities and towns in the occupied West Bank in the same way it has in Gaza.
Addressing residents of the Palestinian areas of Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Qalqilya and Shuweika, Smotrich wrote on X: “We will turn you into ruins like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are perpetrating on the settlements continues.”
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have carried out violent, near daily raids throughout these West Bank areas and others since October 7, regularly storming into homes, rounding up Palestinians en masse and bulldozing roads. During these raids, at least 519 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,000 injured.
Palestinian shot in new Jenin raid: Report
Israeli forces have launched a new incursion into Jenin in the occupied West Bank, reports the Wafa news agency. A large of number of forces have stormed the town, with surveillance planes flying overhead, it said.
The forces have opened fire on at least one young man, injuring him in the thigh, according to the report.
The raid on Jenin comes after a series of overnight and early morning incursions throughout the West Bank, including in areas of Nablus, Hebron, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Tubas and Jerusalem governorates.
More people shot, injured in Jenin raid
The number of Palestinians injured in Jenin, currently being raided by Israeli forces, has risen to six, says the Palestinian health ministry. Those wounded are all young men hit by Israeli gunfire, reports the Wafa news agency, citing medical sources, as Israeli snipers are stationed on the rooftop of local houses and shops.
During the raid, Israeli bulldozers have also rolled through the streets and damaged roads and property, said Wafa.
Gantz’s party submits bill to hold early elections in Israel: Report
Israeli news outlet Haaretz has just reported that the political party founded by Israeli parliament member and former Israeli army general Benny Gantz, has submitted a bill to dissolve the Israeli parliament, called the Knesset, and hold early elections in the country.
Demonstrators in Israel have been packing the streets of major cities calling for just this, saying that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has mismanaged the Gaza war and not done enough to engage with Hamas on a deal to get Israeli captives held in Gaza home safely.
Tamano-Shata said, in comments carried by Haaretz, “October 7 is a disaster that requires us to return and receive the people’s trust, to establish a broad and stable unity government that can lead us safely in the face of the tremendous challenges in security, in the economy and in Israeli society. Submitting the bill now will allow us to bring it up in the current conference.”
Palestinian citizen of Israel detained for posts about Gaza
A Palestinian woman with Israeli citizenship has been detained and questioned over a social media post believed to have expressed sympathy with Palestinians killed in Rafah.
A video of her arrest shows her being blindfolded and zip-tied while taken into custody.
