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Saturday, December 30, 2023
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Saturday, December 30, 2023
Gallant, Gantz reportedly refused Netanyahu’s request to hold joint press conference
From left to right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister Benny Gantz hold a joint press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/Pool/Flash90)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and war cabinet member Benny Gantz rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to hold a joint press conference with him this evening, according to Hebrew media reports. Netanyahu is set to hold the press conference without them shortly.
A source in Gantz’s National Unity party tells the Walla news site that “there is no special reason to hold the [press] conference. We did not see it as right to take part.”
Channel 13 news attributes the refusal by Gantz and Gallant to their anger at Netanyahu for preventing the war cabinet from deliberating the issue of “the day after” in Gaza, along with concerns the premier will again make political statements at the upcoming press conference.
