
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his six-member wartime cabinet, days after ex-general Benny Gantz left the government.
Netanyahu is now expected to hold consultations on the war in Gaza with a small group of ministers, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who had been in the war cabinet.
The prime minister had faced demands from his nationalist-religious coalition partners, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to be included in the war cabinet, a move that would have intensified tensions with the partners. international, including the United States.
The forum was formed after Gantz joined Netanyahu in a national unity government at the start of the war in October, which also included Gantz's partner Gadi Eisenkot and Aryeh Deri, head of the religious Shas party, as observers.
But Gantz and Eisenkot quit the government last week after saying Netanyahu had failed to form a strategy for the war in Gaza.