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Updated Tuesday, March 12, 2024-09:24

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The United States intelligence services considered this Monday that the "viability as leader" of Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu

is "in danger."

This appears in a report delivered this Monday to Congress by the

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

, which coordinates the 18 intelligence agencies of the United States.

"Netanyahu's viability as a leader,

as well as his governing coalition

made up of far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties that have pursued inflexible policies on Palestinian and security issues, could be in danger," reads the report, which is published annually. .

Likewise, US intelligence believes that, within Israel

, "distrust" in Netanyahu's ability to govern has "deepened and widened"

and there are likely to be "large protests demanding his resignation and new elections."

"It is possible that a different, more moderate government will be formed,"

add the intelligence agencies.

Netanyahu has faced harsh domestic criticism for failing to foresee or prevent the

October 7 terrorist attack

, when the Palestinian group

Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis

and took 240 hostages.

Since then, Israeli attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have left

31,112 dead

and 72,760 injured.