The move does not immediately pose a threat to Netanyahu, who still controls a majority coalition in parliament.
Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's three-man war cabinet, has announced his resignation, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and putting his own "political survival" over the country's security needs.
He added that Netanyahu was "making empty promises," and the country needed to take a different direction as he expected the fighting to continue for years to come. He scrapped a planned news conference Saturday night after four Israeli hostages were dramatically rescued from Gaza earlier in the day in Israel's largest such operation since the eight-month war began.Palestinians look at the aftermath of the Israeli bombing in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip. , Gaza health officials said.
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