Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
Pressure is mounting on Benjamin Netanyahu to change course in the seven-month war on Hamas, after a key member of his war cabinet threatened to quit on Saturday, adding to weeks of foreign criticism. The Israeli Prime Minister is facing a revolt within his own three-member war cabinet over both the tactics used in ongoing operations in Gaza and the future planning for the tiny strip of land that has become the center of a humanitarian crisis.
Netanyahu rejected Gantz’s claims and said the conditions would mean “a defeat of Israel,” his office said Sunday. “Gantz chooses to issue an ultimatum to the Prime Minister instead of issuing an ultimatum to Hamas,” the statement said, adding that the prime minister opposes the “establishment of a Palestinian state that will inevitably be a state of terror.
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