Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Monday his support for the ouster of Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.

Lapid's position came in the context of his comment on a report published by Israeli Army Radio, about the move of the leader of "National Unity", Minister of the War Council, Benny Gantz, to oust Netanyahu.

Lapid wrote on his account on the “X” platform that his party, “There is a future, will give its 24 votes to any such step (removing Netanyahu).”

Earlier Monday, Army Radio said that Gantz tried to overthrow Prime Minister Netanyahu, using members of the Likud party, which the latter leads.

According to the radio, envoys on behalf of Gantz recently made contact with ministers and Knesset members from Likud in an attempt to promote the replacement of Netanyahu in the Knesset.

She added: "Likud members were told that if they succeeded in constructively withdrawing confidence from Netanyahu (in the Knesset), so that the government was not overthrown, they would take care of their political future in the National Unity Party."

The idea is to topple Netanyahu and replace him with another candidate from the Likud party that he leads.

In this regard, the radio said that those close to Gantz proposed various Likud candidates for the position of prime minister, and did not demand that Gantz be appointed to the position, without mentioning the names.

She pointed out that "the basic idea is to appoint an agreed-upon candidate for a specific period, who pledges not to run for the presidency of Likud in the future."

The radio noted that "Gantz chose not to comment on the report."

In recent weeks, calls have emerged to hold early elections in Israel, but Netanyahu rejected the idea in a time of war.

Netanyahu faces repeated criticism from the Israeli street and a number of politicians, even those affiliated with the War Council, against the backdrop of the crisis of Israeli prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip and the failure to find a path to guarantee their return alive, in addition to accusing his government of failing to detect and deal with the attack of October 7, 2023.

In response to "daily Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and their sanctities," on October 7, Hamas attacked military bases and settlements around Gaza, resulting in hundreds of deaths. It was later revealed that many of them were killed by Israeli army fire, according to Hebrew sources. Hamas also captured about 240, it exchanged more than 100 of them during a truce with Israel, which detains more than 8,600 Palestinians.