Minister in the Israeli war government, Gadi Eisenkot, announced his resignation, coinciding with the resignation of Benny Gantz.

Eisenkot said in his resignation letter: “External and political considerations penetrated the decision-making process.”

Eisenkot continued in his speech to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "Despite my great efforts, along with my colleagues, the government under your leadership has long refrained from making the critical decisions necessary to achieve the war goals and improve the strategic situation of the State of Israel."

He added that this abstention from making decisive decisions “practically harms the strategic situation and national security of the State of Israel.”

He added: "External and political considerations have penetrated the discussion rooms. Therefore, this is our time to leave the government."

In the same context, Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from the government after the expiry of the deadline he set for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make strategic decisions related to the war on the Gaza Strip.

Gantz said: “Our participation in the war council was for a common destiny and not a political partnership, and leaving the government is a complex and painful decision... Today we leave the emergency government with a heavy heart.”

In the resignation statement he delivered today, Gantz stressed that “Netanyahu is obstructing important strategic decisions due to political considerations,” stressing that “we are withdrawing from this government because Netanyahu is preventing us from progressing toward achieving true victory.”

The former minister in the war cabinet also indicated that he “supports the deal presented by Biden, which he asked the prime minister to have the courage to make it successful,” and he told the families of the prisoners: “We failed the test and were not able to return their children, and everything must be done to He postponed the proposed deal to recover the kidnapped persons.”

He added: "I call on Netanyahu to go to hold elections as soon as possible and form a national investigation committee. There must be elections that bring about a true national Zionist unity government," and he called on party leaders to stand by him in order to hold elections to form a national Zionist unity government.

Netanyahu had called on the head of the "National Camp" bloc, Benny Gantz, to retract the decision to withdraw from the Israeli emergency government that was formed in the wake of the war on Gaza, and called on him "not to give up unity."

This came in a brief statement that Netanyahu shared on his social media accounts, saying, “This is a time of unity, not a time of division. We must remain united from within in the face of the great tasks that await us. I call on Benny Gantz: Do not abandon the emergency government, do not abandon unity.” ".