Time to resolve tensions with "Hezbollah" on Israel's border with Lebanon through diplomatic means expires. This was warned by the leader of the National Unity Party of Israel, Benny Gantz.
He made his announcement at a meeting with United States President Joe Biden's senior adviser on energy and investment Amos Hochstein.
Gantz informed Hochstein that he was committed to "eliminating the threat that "Hezbollah" represents for the citizens of northern Israel, regardless of the development of the war in Gaza" and insisted that he would support "any responsible and effective political or military solution to the matter outside the government".
Gantz quit the Israeli government earlier this month on the grounds that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "preventing us from getting closer to a real victory" in the conflict with "Hamas". He then called on Netanyahu to schedule an election.
Yesterday the Israeli prime minister dissolved the six-member military cabinet.
Gantz, a former defense minister, joined Netanyahu's cabinet after the attack by "Hamas" on October 7 as a minister without portfolio. In mid-May, eight months after the start of the war, Benny Gantz first threatened to resign if the government did not present a post-war plan for Gaza by June 8.
According to public opinion polls, in early elections, Gantz would have a good chance of replacing Netanyahu as prime minister.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip eight months ago, there have been daily military confrontations between the Israeli army and "Hezbollah" and other groups in the border area between Israel and Lebanon. There are victims on both sides.
The mutual shelling caused serious destruction in towns on both sides of the border.
About 150,000 people have been evacuated or left the war zone. Recently, the situation has escalated further and there are fears of a larger military confrontation in the region if the conflict between Israel and "Hamas" continue.