The Blue and White’s party’s No.2, Yair Lapid, castigates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “total surrender” to Hamas by tacitly approving a ceasefire agreement with terrorist groups in Gaza early this morning.
“Netanyahu used the residents of the south as a flak jacket on his way to total surrender to Hamas,” Lapid tweets. “Netanyahu will not solve the problem in Gaza, he doesn’t have the operational or political courage to do so.
Yair Lapid of the Blue and White party, in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
“The minimum he has to do is explain to the people of Israel what’s going on, and he doesn’t even have the courage to do that.”
There was no official confirmation of the ceasefire from Israel, but the intense fighting in and around Gaza over the past two days appeared to come to a sudden halt early this morning.
The IDF lifted protective restrictions on residents in southern Israel, indicating that it had accepted the terms of an Egyptian-brokered deal announced by the terror groups in Gaza.
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