JAKARTA - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would retain Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in light of the escalating security crisis, reversing a decision to fire the minister that sparked protests and heightened alarm abroad.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said they had resolved differences between the two over Gallant's public call last month to stop a judicial overhaul plan that was dividing the government and which Gallant considered to be a threat to Israel's security.
Last week, PM Netanyahu announced he would postpone the sacking.
"I have decided to forget our differences," PM Netanyahu said at a news conference Monday, according to Reuters, April 11.
PM Netanyahu further said the two had worked closely together over the last two weeks.
Late last month, Gallant was seen overseeing the launch of a new version of Israel's Ofek spy satellite into orbit in his capacity as defense minister, after Prime Minister Netanyahu's office earlier announced his dismissal.
When PM Netanyahu's office announced his dismissal, no other name was immediately announced as Gallant's replacement. He immediately wrote on Twitter: "The security of the state of Israel has always been and will always be my mission in life."
It is known that the security crisis continues to escalate in the Middle East region, after the raid by the Israeli police on worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
VOIR éGALEMENT:
Most recently, an Italian tourist was killed and five people injured in a car that crashed into Tel Aviv on Friday, hours after two Israeli sisters and their mother were killed in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank.
Before the incident, Israel had to face the night of its cross-border attacks with Gaza and Lebanon, a response to the Al Aqsa Mosque attack which added to Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
Tensions widened as Israel responded to the barrage of rockets by hitting targets linked to the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza and southern Lebanon.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
