to report «iusnews»; Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of persistently lying and evading responsibility while Israeli soldiers are being killed in the Gaza Strip.
“Netanyahu is doing what he has been doing throughout his life: incitement, lying, and producing hatred,” Lapid said on social media platform X on Wednesday, Anadolu news agency reproted.
“Now, he (Netanyahu) is doing it only amid a bitter war where soldiers are killed every day,” he added.
Lapid stated while Israeli soldiers are being killed in Gaza, “Netanyahu has once again invented disputes with the US, with me, and with [war cabinet ministers] Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot.”
Netanyahu opposes US efforts to allow the Palestinian Authority to govern the Gaza Strip following the end of the ongoing Israeli war on the blockaded territory.
Washington, for its part, argues that there must be a Palestinian authority or government in Gaza in the post-war period.
Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip from the air and land, imposed a siege and mounted a ground offensive in retaliation for a cross-border attack by Hamas on October7.
At least 18,600 Palestinians have been killed and 50,600 injured in the Israeli onslaught since then, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
The Israeli death toll in the Hamas attack stood at 1,200, while around 139 hostages remained in captivity, according to official figures.
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen stressed on Wednesday that the Israeli Defense Force will continue its war with the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip regardless of the presence or absence of international support,
"Israel will continue the war against Hamas with or without international support. The ceasefire at the current stage is a gift to the Hamas terrorist organization and will allow it to return and threaten the people of Israel," Cohen stated at a meeting with Australian Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Tim Watts.
