The Israeli Minister of National Security called Itamar Ben GvirOn Thursday, he decided to dissolve the War Ministerial Council, due to what he considered the failure of the War Council to manage the battle over Gaza strip.
The Military Ministerial Council includes the Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuAnd the Minister of Defense Yoav GalantMinister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, and the two ministers without portfolio Benny Gantz AndGadi EizenkotIt was formed on October 11 to manage the war on the Gaza Strip.
Ben Gvir, leader of the far-right Jewish Power Party, said in a tweet on the X platform, “If someone intends, God forbid, to stop the Israeli army before the defeat of the Islamic Resistance Movement…agitation) and return all the kidnapped ones, let him take into account that the Jewish power is not with him.”
He added that the idea of reducing activity in Gaza is “a failure in the management of the war by the limited government (the War Ministerial Council) and must be dismantled immediately,” and he considered that the time has come to return the reins to the established government.
New negotiations
Yesterday, Wednesday, Israeli Channels 12 and 13, citing Israeli government officials, said that the broad outlines of a new exchange deal with Hamas are the release of between 30 and 40 detainees held by Hamas in exchange for a truce of up to two weeks, the release of a large number of prominent Palestinian detainees, and the withdrawal from some… areas in Gaza.
According to Channel 12, Israel is ready to consider changing the military deployment in Gaza in line with war plans if the deal between the current phase of fighting and the next phase is implemented.
Israeli sources told the media in recent days that the country will move to the second phase of the war in mid-January.
Last Monday, Israeli media, including Channel 12, said that negotiations were being conducted by the Qatari and Egyptian mediators with Israel in an attempt to reach a new prisoner exchange deal.
According to Israeli statistics, Hamas captured about 239 people during its attack on the Gaza Strip on October 7, and exchanged dozens of them during a humanitarian truce that lasted for 7 days until December 1, with Israel, which holds 7,800 Palestinians in its prisons, including Children and women.
Since last October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which, as of Wednesday, has left 20,000 Palestinian martyrs, 52,600 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.