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Gantz threatens to quit Israeli war cabinet over postwar plans for Gaza

Benny Gantz, a key member of Israel's War Cabinet and the top political rival of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, leaves after a meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC on March 5, 2024. © Mark Schiefelbei, AP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country's closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending.

On Saturday, Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet and Netanyahu's main political rival, said he would leave the government on June 8 if it did not formulate a new war plan including an international, Arab and Palestinian administration to handle civilian affairs in Gaza.

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