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If the budget fails to pass the Knesset in the March votes, early elections will be held within three months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity, said previously that holding elections now would be a “mistake.”
Netanyahu’s current term began with a controversial judicial overhaul plan that sparked months of mass protests, with tens of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets almost daily.
Opposition figures and families of captives also accused him of prolonging the genocide in Gaza for his own political survival.
Israel killed over 71,600 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded over 171,400 in its genocide in Gaza since October 2023.