Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was critical of plans announced Sunday by his military to hold 11-hour pauses in fighting along a main road into Gaza to facilitate getting aid into the bomb-stricken area.<\/p>\n
Reuters reported that the Israeli military announced daily pauses in battle from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time between Kerem Shalom Crossing and Salah al-Din Road, then northwards.<\/p>\n
\u2018When the prime minister heard the reports of an 11-hour humanitarian pause in the morning, he turned to his military secretary and made it clear that this was unacceptable to him,\u2019 an Israeli official said.<\/p>\n
While fighting would pause in the area defined, the military clarified it would continue normal operations in Rafah, which is the main focus of its campaign in southern Gaza.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu\u2019s reaction highlights heightened political tensions over aid being delivered into Gaza, where international groups have warned of a growing humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who leads one of the nationalist religious parties in Netanyahu\u2019s ruling coalition, denounced the idea of a tactical pause, saying whoever decided it was a \u2018fool\u2019 who should lose their job.<\/p>\n
The dispute is just the latest between members of Netanyahu\u2019s coalition and the military over how the war is being conducted between Israel and Hamas, which has been going on for nine months.<\/p>\n
Last Sunday, Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz quit Netanyahu\u2019s emergency government, saying the prime minister was making \u2018total victory impossible.\u2019<\/p>\n
In announcing his resignation on Sunday, Gantz said the government needs to put the return of the\u00a0hostages seized on Oct. 7 by Hamas \u2018above political survival.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Months after the October disaster, the situation in the country and in the decision-making cabinet has changed. Netanyahu and his partners have turned unity into a void call who has no cover. Fateful strategic decisions are met with hesitancy and procrastination due to political considerations,\u2019 Gantz said. \u2018Netanyahu is preventing us from progressing to a real victory. That is why we are leaving the emergency government today with a heavy heart, but with a whole heart.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Months after the October disaster, the situation in the country and in the decision-making cabinet has changed,\u2019 Gantz added. \u2018Netanyahu and his partners have turned unity into a void call who has no cover. Fateful strategic decisions are met with hesitancy and procrastination due to political considerations.\u2019<\/p>\n
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called Gantz\u2019s decision important and just, arguing that it was time to change Netanyahu\u2019s government with one that will lead to restoring security, hostage releases and rehabilitation of the economic and international status of Israel.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was critical of plans announced Sunday by his military to hold 11-hour pauses in fighting along a main road into Gaza to facilitate getting aid into the bomb-stricken area. Reuters reported that the Israeli military announced daily pauses in battle from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time between Kerem <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}