Israel's Opposition Leader Urges PM Netanyahu To Resign!

Israel's Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (anodalu)

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign from his post. Lapid considered Netanyahu unable to run the government and resolve the conflict with Hamas.

"Netanyahu must leave now during the fighting," Lapid told Israel's Channel 12.

This government is not working. We need a change Netanyahu cannot continue to become prime minister. We cannot allow ourselves to carry out a prolonged campaign with a prime minister who is not trusted by the public," he said as quoted by Anodalu, Sunday, November 26.

Lapid points out that his party, Yesh Atid, or there is a future, may join the national reconstruction government' with the Likud Party, but emphasizes that Netanyahu cannot lead it.

According to the recent poll results, 66 percent of Israelis want early elections after the end of the Gaza conflict, which began after a cross-border attack by the Palestinian Hamas group on October 7.

Since then, Israel has continued to carry out relentless bombings in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 11,500 Palestinians, more than half of whom are women and children. Thousands of buildings, including hospitals, mosques and churches, were also damaged or completely destroyed.

Meanwhile, the death toll in Israel was officially reported at 1,200.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday issued a resolution calling for the immediate release of all hostages detained by Hamas and the urgent and expanded humanitarian corridors across the region to save and protect the lives of civilians.