Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid takes Benjamin Netanyahu to task for his policy on the Gaza Strip, claiming the prime minister isn’t doing enough to counter airborne arson attacks from there.
“The prime minister has a new reason why he is doing nothing in Gaza — because he is waiting for the Americans,” Lapid says at his party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset.
“For four years he has done nothing regarding Gaza,” he continues. “He knew, we all knew that there would be a new round of violence, but he did nothing. And now the round of violence has come. Our fields are being burned.
“The army needs to be given a bigger toolbox to deal with this,” Lapid says.
He says that Netanyahu is waiting for the Trump administration to present its peace plan and has therefore not acted to stem the arson attacks from Gaza.
“One who care about security does not wait for the Americans,” Lapid charges. “He acts on his own. We cannot allow them to decide for us. We need to present our own plan.”
— Raoul Wootliff
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