Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported that the Israeli war cabinet convened this evening but stopped short of discussing what will happen the day after the war on Gaza.
“They were supposed to talk about what’s going to happen the day after the war, or as Israel refers to it, ‘the day after Hamas’,” Salhut said, speaking from occupied East Jerusalem.
“However, there have been several objections among Netanyahu’s own coalition, to have these discussions. Israeli media is now reporting that the prime minister has succumbed to that pressure and those discussions will not happen just yet.”
The fierce opposition is coming from members of the far right, specifically ultranationalists within Netanyahu’s government like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Salhut said. The two ministers are not part of the war cabinet but have objected to a lot of decisions. If they left Netanyahu’s coalition, it could fall apart.
“There are a lot of different pressures Netanyahu is under, such as the internal political pressure between him and his own government,” Salhut said.
Source: AlJazeera
