Lapid: October 7 happened after Netanyahu’s ‘judicial coup’ weakened security
In remarks quoted by Israel’s public radio, the opposition leader also says there are political parties in Netanyahu’s government that call for endless war in Gaza.
Lapid added that the world looks at these parties “with surprise and moves away” from Israel. He also called for the formation of a regional alliance against Iran with Arab countries that will also be part of the solution in Gaza.
The politician also renewed his call for a deal in Gaza that would bring the Israeli captives in the enclave home.
Smotrich slams EU’s Borrell over sanctions remarks
The Israeli finance minister has accused EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell of backing Hamas as well as the Iranian “axis of evil”, claiming they “threaten the western society in its entirety”.
“There will be a day in which Europe will be ashamed of Borrell and the double standard that he and many of his friends have applied to Israel while siding with actual terrorists,” Bezalel Smotrich posted on X.
Borrell had called for more sanctions on “extremist” Israeli officials after recent comments by far-right Israeli ministers opposed to a Gaza ceasefire deal and humanitarian aid deliveries to the enclave.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for cutting off all fuel and aid to Gaza and Smotrich has said starving children in Gaza would be “justified and moral”.
Weapons are smuggled to occupied West Bank via Jordan: Katz
Israeli foreign minister has accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hamas fighters in Lebanon of smuggling “weapons and funds into Jordan with the aim of destabilising the regime”.
He claimed on X that these weapons and money are then smuggled across the eastern border, flooding the occupied West Bank, particularly refugee camps, aiming to create a pro-Iranian Islamic terror front.
Iran “effectively controls refugee camps” in the occupied West Bank through its proxies, leaving the Palestinian Authority “powerless to act”, the minister also claimed.
