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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Ra’am condemns Gaza attack: Aimed at ‘solving coalition crisis’

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas attends a Constitution Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on March 5, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
The opposition Ra’am party and the Southern Islamic Movement denounce the overnight Israeli strikes in Gaza, claiming there’s a link between the operation and the coalition infighting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
“We denounce the Netanyahu-Ben Gvir government’s attack on families’ homes with women and children in order to solve a coalition crisis,” they say in a statement quoted by Channel 12 news.