The repercussions of Shirin's assassination... An upcoming bill to dissolve the Knesset, and the Israeli foreign minister says it is too early to mourn the government

The Israeli "Likud" party said that it will present a bill to the Knesset (Parliament) on Wednesday to dissolve it and hold early elections, after MK Ghida Rinawi Zoabi resigned from it. For his part, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid considered it too early to "mourn" the government.

Zoabi had announced her resignation from the ruling coalition in Israel, which lost another vote, to rely from now on on only 59 votes from the 120 Knesset members.

Until a month ago, the government had 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, but with Yamina MK Idit Silman last April withdrew its support, the government and the opposition divided the Knesset.

And the scene became more complicated, with Zoabi announcing, Thursday, that he was withdrawing her support for the government, as it had only 59 Knesset members.

Zoabi said, in a letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, that the scene of the attack on the funeral of journalist Sherine Abu Akleh resolved her initial position by submitting the resignation, along with the attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan, in a way that she said she was no longer able to stay in a coalition that repudiated. It deals shamefully and outrageously with the issues of the Arab society it represents.

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Al-Jazeera correspondent said that Bennett summoned his party members for consultations after Zoabi's resignation, while Ahmed Tibi, a member of the Knesset and head of the Arab Movement for Change, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the assassination of Abu Akleh shook the government and might bring it down, even without the ruling coalition's resignations.

For his part, the Foreign Minister considered, today, Friday, that it was premature to "make aware" of the government, whose leadership he rotates with the leader of the "Yamina" party, Bennett.

"We've been eulogies 5 times a day, for the private broadcast, and we're back. Now these same people tell you it's over. It's not over yet, we're here," Lapid wrote in a Facebook post.

He also said, "This government is the right thing for the state and people of Israel. We have no intention of surrendering or abandoning it. We have no intention of giving (opposition leader Benjamin) Netanyahu and (right-wing lawmaker Itamar) Ben Gvir a chance to destroy the country."

"We will do what we do every time, once again we will sit with those who need to sit down, and we will fix everything that needs to be fixed," he added.