Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to postpone his trial sessions in corruption cases, claiming that he is busy managing the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to what Israeli Channel 13 reported in its evening bulletin on Tuesday.

The report stated that Netanyahu approached the Israeli Public Prosecution with a request to postpone some of the hearings of key witnesses in his trial sessions on corruption charges, in a letter sent by Netanyahu’s lawyer, Amit Haddad.

The letter stated that Netanyahu demands “postponing the hearing of some witnesses (in the corruption cases in which he is being tried), because, as he claims, the prime minister “will not be able to prepare to interrogate these witnesses before the end of the war.”