The group faces crucial decisions over how to manage an expected ground invasion of Gaza
Israeli soldiers patrol along the border with southern Gaza, in Israel, 26 October 2023. The Israeli army confirmed it carried out an overnight 'targeted raid' into northern Gaza on 26 October.
People who have worked with the 74-year-old politician say the contrast between his bombastic rhetoric and far more cautious actions is typical of his approach. Although Netanyahu authorised a limited ground operation in Gaza in 2014, he has never ordered anything on the scale or complexity of the ground operation for which Israel’s military is at present preparing.
Israel's minister of defence Yoav Gallant is regarded as one of the more hawkish members of the war cabinet. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AFP via Getty ImagesA former head of Israel’s Southern Command and a key player in the war against Hamas in 2008-09, minister of defence Yoav Gallant is regarded as one of the more hawkish members of the war cabinet.
This would not be their first clash. In March, Netanyahu sacked Gallant after he warned that a controversial judicial overhaul pushed by the government risked damaging the military. Netanyahu grudgingly reversed the sacking after mass protests in the wake of the announcement. But he and his ally Gadi Eisenkot insisted on establishing a clear plan for how Israeli forces would leave Gaza after the war and what governance structure would replace Hamas, something Israeli planners are still trying to work out.
One of the most important was his role in the drive to normalise relations with Saudi Arabia, which before Hamas’s assault on Israel was one of the government’s key areas of focus. Dermer has also played an important role in managing relations with the US, Israel’s most important security partner.Gadi Eisenkot succeeded Gantz as the chief of staff of Israel’s military and then followed him into politics, being elected to parliament last year as a member of the National Unity alliance.
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