○ "The correct and easy way to solve everything that is happening is to end the war in Gaza and withdraw all soldiers from the Strip in one deal."

○ "Whoever says that we must continue fighting

.... opposition members boycotting the vote in protest.

Replacing Katz as foreign minister is New Hope’s Gideon Sa’ar, whose appointment was also approved by parliament.

60 percent believe Yoav Gallant is best suited for Defense Minister...14 percent for Israel Katz.

The main obstacle remains Gallant, but sources in Likud say Netanyahu won't hesitate to replace him if he doesn't fold

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is said to believe that ‘now is not the time’ for an offensive against Hezbollah...

The premier is planning to replace Gallant with Gideon Saar, former Likud member and...

Gallant, had last week called for the formation of a state-commission inquiry for the 7 October attacks.

...Israeli defense minister Gallant... at this time in April called for a Hostage deal to be made....

4/8 - Right Time To Do A Hostage Deal, Says Israel's Defence Minister [Gallant]

...In mid-May Gallant rejected Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza plan, with the idea of Israeli military rule, furthering tensions.

Indeed, Gantz, war cabinet minister, and Gallant, defense minister, have been clashing with Netanyahu for months...

3/22 — Netanyahu Furious At Defense Minister As Cracks In War Cabinet Deepen

3/24 — Military Draft Bill Creates Rift in Israeli Governmen

3/29 — Netanyahu’s Party Blames Opposition for Driving Wedge With Washington

... there have also been significant amounts of unlawful airstrikes and destruction of civilian infrastructure and housing, a tight blockade of Gaza that has led to a humanitarian catastrophe and amounts to collective punishment of the civilian population, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war. Since the first days of the offensive, Israel has carried out these acts in conjunction with an evacuation system that has flagrantly failed to keep Palestinians in Gaza safe, and in fact put them in harm’s way. Nowhere in Gaza is safe. As this report will show, Israel’s actions have intentionally caused the mass and forced displacement of the majority of the civilian population of Gaza.

According to the United Nations, 1.9 million people were displaced in Gaza as of October 2024 out of a population of 2.2 million people. This report examines the Israeli authorities’ conduct which has led to this extraordinarily high level of displacement and finds these actions amount to forced displacement. Given the evidence strongly indicates that multiple acts of forced displacement were carried out with intent, it amounts to war crimes. The report further finds that the Israeli government’s acts of forced displacement are widespread and systematic. Statements by senior officials with command responsibility show that forced displacement is intentional and forms part of Israeli state policy and therefore amount to a crime against humanity. Israel’s actions appear to also meet the definition of ethnic cleansing.

Israel is the occupying power in Gaza and as such its conduct is governed by international humanitarian law (IHL). Under IHL – or the laws of war – forcible transfer, which means the forced displacement of any civilian inside an occupied territory, is prohibited, and, if committed with criminal intent, is a war crime....

Human Rights Watch has amassed evidence that Israeli officials are instead committing the war crime of forcible transfer, a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and a crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The same day that the ICJ Issued the verdict against Israel, Jan 26th.. Israel launched allegations that UNRWA workers assisted Hamas, and had western nations withdraw funding (before it was later revealed that Israel not only had no real evidence... tortured... false confessions....)

The Digital Investigations Lab Spent Months Analyzing SAT Imagery, Social Media Posts, Internet Outage Data, Testimonies, Videos + Photos to Document Crimes Against Humanity.

7/10 — 🚨 Israel's Negotiation Team Speaks With Haaretz. Describes How Netanyahu Has Leaked Classified Intel To Sabotage Hostage Deals

Trump’s Unfinished Business for ‘Greater Israel’

From annexation to UNRWA, Trump’s Israel advisors should be taken at their word — and Democrats won’t stand in their way, says Lara Friedman.

....Israel-Palestine has never been central for Trump personally, but it is central for a number of the people who he feels accountable to or cares about — starting with Miriam Adelson, who was one of his top donors.

It’s useful to look at what’s unfinished from [the first Trump administration’s] agenda. The selection of Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel [who denies that Israel is even occupying the West Bank] proves that Trump intends to advance and claim credit for achieving the “Greater Israel” dreams of messianic Zionist Jews and evangelical Christians. With Gaza, Hagit Ofran from Peace Now was quoted in Haaretz saying she thinks there are going to be settlements before inauguration.

I think we’re in a “Greater Israel” policy period. They’ve already talked about Israel’s right to gain territory that is taken in self-defense, which of course is an outright repudiation of international law...

...an IDF intel officer has stepped forward to add to the growing body of indications that Israeli leadership had ignored serious intelligence indicating an impending Hamas attack

11/25 — Jerusalem Post: IDF Elite Intel Officer Warned About Hamas Attacks, Ignored

“Gaza is our homeland. From the river to the sea the national rights are only for one people. The nation of Israel. There is nothing called Palestinian people, never was, and will never be.”