Minister Sa'ar (center) held Netanyahu "responsible for the failure" to confront the attack of last October 7 (Reuters)
Today, Saturday, Israeli Minister Gideon Sa'ar threatened to withdraw from the government if he did not join the war council, accusing the government of not having a clear plan to destroy the capabilities of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.
Sa'ar said, "The War Council is negligent in its work. We are moving away from achieving victory day after day," noting that the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza "is not moving in the right direction and has entered the stage of slowdown."
Last Tuesday, Sa'ar announced the dissolution of his political partnership with Minister in the War Council, Benny Gantz, and the dissolution of the "State Camp Alliance," calling for it to join the War Council as an independent bloc.
Sa'ar, leader of the "New Hope" party, joined the state camp coalition led by Benny Gantz - who leads the "Blue and White" party - in the last rounds of elections, and was one of the strongest calls for the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in light of the corruption files persecuting him.
Sa'ar said at a conference of his party's activists in Tel Aviv, "I respect my two friends who are representatives of the state camp in the war council (Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot), but unfortunately they do not express the positions that I was going to put forward there."
Sa'ar previously said that Netanyahu bears the main responsibility for the "failure."
Maariv newspaper quoted him as saying that Israel is still far from achieving what he called the goals of the war in Gaza.
The Israeli political and military levels are dominated by escalating disagreements that threaten to dissolve the government and call for early elections, in the wake of last October 7, following the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza against Israel, in response to the attacks of the occupation and settlers against the Palestinians and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Source: Al Jazeera