JERUSALEM, June 8 (Reuters) – Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet and political adversary of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will hold a press conference this Saturday during which he is expected to announce his departure for lack of having obtained the plan detailing the post-war in the Gaza Strip that he demands.
Benny Gantz demanded last month an agreement on a six-point plan specifying in particular who will be responsible for governing the Palestinian enclave at the end of the war against Hamas, which has lasted for more than seven months.
He did not say when he would leave the emergency government in the event of no response, but his speech illustrates the internal tensions in this “war cabinet” that he forms with Benjamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant.
The former Israeli defense minister proposed that the Gaza Strip be governed after the war by a temporary mixed civilian administration relying on the United States, Europeans, Arab countries and Palestinians while Israel would keep control over security issues. (Maayan Lubell and Ari Rabinovitch; French version Nicolas Delame)
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