Israeli opposition party seeks to replace Netanyahu, Netanyahu fails to minimize casualties

Israeli opposition party seeks to replace Netanyahu, Netanyahu fails to minimize casualties

On the 16th, the leader of the Israeli opposition party announced the formation of a ‘replacement of Netanyahu’ and a ‘healing and reconnection coalition government’.
Prime Minister Netanyahu told CBC News on the 16th that attempts to minimize casualties were "unsuccessful," Reuters reported.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Twitter that it was time to replace Prime Minister Netanyahu and that there would be widespread support to form a unity government led by Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party.
Representative Lapid is a centrist who served as prime minister last year, and on this day, he said, “The time has come to establish a government to rebuild the country. The Likud party will lead, Netanyahu and the extremists will be replaced, and more than 90 Knesset members will support healing and healing.” We will be partners in the coalition to reconnect,” he wrote on social media platform X.
Netanyahu's Likud party is the largest party in Israel's ruling coalition, which includes extreme nationalist and religious parties, and has 64 seats in parliament.
Regarding the 120 seats in the National Assembly, Opposition Leader Lapid said, “I believe that the majority of the 120 members will sign the coalition.”
He told "We can't afford it, and we can't keep fighting and explain to the other side why it's a disaster," he said.
In an interview with CBS News on this day, Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to the question, 'Will Israel's killing of thousands of Palestinians in retaliation for the October 7 attack by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fuel a new generation of hatred?' "The death of is a tragedy. We shouldn't have that because Hamas is doing everything it can to put civilians at risk, while we are doing everything it can to put civilians at risk," he responded.
“So we send out leaflets, (we) call their cellphones and say, ‘Go,’ and a lot of them left,” Netanyahu continued. “The other thing I can tell you is that we do it while minimizing civilian casualties.” "We're going to try to end it. That's what we're trying to do: minimize civilian casualties. But unfortunately we haven't succeeded," he said.
Netanyahu then said he wanted to “draw a parallel to something related to Germany,” before a CBS interviewer interrupted him by asking about “post-war security in the Gaza Strip,” Reuters reported.
“Palestinian civilians have borne the brunt of Israel's weeks-long military campaign to counter Hamas attacks,” Reuters said. “They took 10,000 people of different nationalities hostage,” he said.
Reuters continued, “Gaza health authorities, who are considered credible by the United Nations, have confirmed that at least 11,500 people have died as a result of Israel's bombing and ground invasion, more than 4,700 of them children,” he said. “Gaza Strip's population of 2.3 million. Two-thirds of people lost their homes due to war. “On the 16th, the Israeli Air Force distributed leaflets in some areas of southern Gaza telling residents to evacuate for their safety,” he said.
Israel warned civilians to move by distributing leaflets in the northern Gaza Strip.
“Hundreds of thousands have done so, creating a mass exodus that leaves many Palestinians fearing permanent displacement,” Reuters said.