Tensions surfaced during Thursday’s Israeli security cabinet meeting over the current ceasefire in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
According to a source familiar with the discussion, it unfolded as follows:<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Netanyahu: \u201cAny immediate threat\u2014our soldiers on the ground respond. We are not restricting any soldier.\u201d<\/p>\n
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: \u201cWhat about an emerging threat? If we see Hezbollah rearming, why aren\u2019t we dismantling them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Israel-Hezbollah war: 5 IDF soldiers killed, 13 wounded over the weekend<\/p>\n
Minister Orit Strook: \u201cThis is drawing criticism from soldiers, who feel like they\u2019re sitting ducks. It\u2019s good that every immediate threat is being addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir: \u201cYou wanted a ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben-Gvir: \u201cI don\u2019t want a ceasefire. That\u2019s exactly why.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netanyahu: \u201cThe Americans understand our right to defend ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defense Minister Israel Katz: \u201cEvery soldier can respond immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf: \u201cBut not beyond the Yellow Line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strook: \u201cHezbollah continues to move ammunition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katz: \u201cThe ceasefire has advantages and disadvantages, but we are not putting any soldier at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben-Gvir: \u201cSoldiers have already been wounded. This is an opportunity to collapse the agreement. We can strike hundreds of targets and bombard them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions surfaced during Thursday’s Israeli security cabinet meeting over the current ceasefire in Lebanon. According to a source…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-512745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}