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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot remain in office.
Lapid told Army Radio: “Changing the prime minister in the midst of war is not a good thing, but the fact that he is in office is the worst. He can’t continue.” The former Israeli prime minister added: “In our era, Hamas was known not to attack.”
“I knew the weakness of the political leadership (of the current Israeli), which is the worst in the history of the country, and if I (the prime minister at the time) had resigned on that day (last October 7),” he said.
On the day after the war, Lapid called for “the Gaza Strip to be placed under international administration by non-Hamas civilian organizations.”
Commenting on Netanyahu’s remarks that he would not allow the PA to return to Gaza, he added: “For some reason Netanyahu says: We will not give control to Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas), but there is no regime that thinks we should give it to him (Abbas), he (Netanyahu) is running a campaign against himself.”
As for the continuation of the war on Gaza, Lapid said: “I am not saying that the fighting should stop, but we must constantly check and ascertain whether this helps or harms the return of the abductees and the readiness to change the situation.” “We’re not doing enough, and I know that because the abductees are not back yet.”
The Israeli war, which has been ongoing since October 7 against the Gaza Strip, has left 20,915 dead and 54,918 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza authorities and the United Nations.