▲ A group of Israelis demonstrate outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, after he dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant due to differences over the war in Gaza.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, p. 23
Jerusalem. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday dismissed the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, after ensuring that he did not trust him to manage the military operations that Israel carries out on the different fronts, which caused thousands of people to come out to protest. to the streets in Tel Aviv – where at least 40 protesters were repressed –, Haifa, Jerusalem and other cities.
Meanwhile, more than 50 people were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Netanyahu appointed Foreign Minister Israel Katz to succeed Gallant as Defense Minister, and Gideon Saar became the new Foreign Minister, the president’s office said in a statement.
Katz wrote on X the social network: We will work together to advance the security system towards victory over our enemies and achieve the objectives of the war: the return of all hostages as the most important mission of value, the destruction of Hamas in Gaza, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon , the stopping of Iranian aggression and the safe return of residents of the north and south to their homes.
Gallant and Netanyahu, both from the right-wing Likud party, have clashed for months over the goals of the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Netanyahu said that, beyond divergent opinions, a crisis of confidence (…) and this crisis does not allow the normal continuation of the management of the campaign.
He added that he tried to bridge the differences, but they They came to the knowledge of our enemies, who enjoyed it and took great advantage of it..
In response, Gallant said that a moral darkness took over Israel. He said he was removed because of his differences with Netanyahu over ultra-Orthodox recruitment, the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and the creation of a commission to investigate authorities’ failures during the Oct. 7 attacks by the militants. Palestinian militias.
There is and never will be atonement for abandoning the hostages. It will become a mark of Cain on the forehead of Israeli society and for those who are on this wrong pathhe said in an appearance, adding that there is amoral and ethical duty to bring the kidnapped people home.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right minister in Netanyahu’s coalition government, praised the decision, saying Gallant was still deeply trapped in the conception that absolute victory cannot be achieved.
Benny Gantz, Netanyahu’s main political rival, called the measure politics at the expense of national securitywhile opposition leader Yair Lapid stated that Netanyahu’s decision to replace Gallant in the middle of a war It’s an act of madnessand added that Netanyahu was selling Israel’s security and soldiers for their own political survival.
During protests in Israel, demonstrators lit roadside bonfires after Gallant’s firing was announced, reported The Jerusalem Post. Several Israeli media reported that the dismissal could affect negotiations with Hamas on the release of the hostages in the strip.
On the front, Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon have killed at least 35 Palestinians since Monday night in Beit Lahiya, Al Zawayda, Gaza City, Deir al Balah, Jabaliya and Rafah; Meanwhile, Israeli forces maintained the siege on the north of the enclave.
Military operations in the towns of Qabatiya, Muzalaz al Shuhada and Tamum, in the reoccupied West Bank, left seven dead.
The toll rose to 43,391 dead and 102,347 injured since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
In Lebanon, at least 11 deaths and 61 injuries were the result of Israeli bombings against several regions of this territory in the last 24 hours, reported the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Since the invasion began in October, Israel has destroyed tens of thousands of homes and more than 30 villages in southern Lebanon, the official news agency reported.
On the Syrian front, Israel launched an attack on ammunition warehouses belonging to Hezbollah in Qusair.
