Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the War Cabinetthe body created on October 11 to make decisions on the military operation in the Gaza Strip following the Hamas attack a few days earlier, as confirmed this Monday by official Israeli sources cited by the EFE agency.

The dissolution of the War Cabinet comes just a week after the leader of National Unity, former general Benny Gantzand his partner Gadi Eisenkot They will leave due to their disagreements with Netanyahu; squares that were now claimed by the extreme right.

Thus, now sensible decisions about war will be made in a smaller consultation forum in which the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, will participate; Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer; the head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, and the ultra-Orthodox leader of the Shas party, Arieh Deri, from Netanyahu’s inner circle.

The new system avoid entry in the power circle of the war of Netanyahu’s two government partners of the far-right wingthe Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, and the head of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich.

“The time has come to make bold decisions, achieve real deterrence, and provide security to the residents of the north, the south, and Israel as a whole,” he wrote in a letter following Gantz’s resignation. Ben Gvir, with the intention of entering the cabinet. The minister supports, among other things, re-establishing settlements in Gaza or the entry of Israeli troops into Lebanon following the escalation of violence with Hezbollah.

Netanyahu, Gallant and Gantz were the only ones with votes in the recently dissolved War Cabinet, while Eisenkot, Deri and Dermer were simply observer members. With the departure of Gantz and Eisenkot, andThe cabinet was doomed to this dissolutionwhich brings the management of the war to a decision-making system like the one established in Israel in the days after the Hamas attack, in which 1,200 people died and to which Israel responded with an offensive that has already killed more than 37,300 people.

Gantz and Eisenkot, both former chiefs of the General Staff, are members of the center-right National Unity party, which joined from the opposition to the emergency government created by Netanyahu in the wake of the war, but which He left the Executive last week due to disagreements with the prime minister about his management of the crisis, especially the absence of a post-war plan for Gaza.