Israel’s Prime Minister dissolves the war cabinet
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his six-member war cabinet, a widely expected decision that follows the departure of centrist opposition leader Benny Gantz and his ally Gadi Eisenkot. Also on the programme: Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean allegedly at the hands of the Greek coastguard, we hear testimony from those who witnessed others thrown overboard; and the international effort to find hundreds of species of ‘missing’ birds (Photo: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu Credit: Gil Cohen Magen via Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Nawal and MacAfee. |
| 0:10.8 | We start today in Israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his |
| 0:15.1 | government's war cabinet. The announcement follows the resignation earlier this month |
| 0:19.2 | of the centrist minister and former general Benny Gantz. He'd complained that the Warren Gaza |
| 0:24.4 | lacked a strategy. Far-right ministers had demanded that they be allowed to take |
| 0:28.7 | his place. It's now being reported that sensitive decisions will be handled by a smaller consultation |
| 0:34.5 | forum while some issues previously discussed by the War Cabinet will be transferred to the |
| 0:39.1 | wider security cabinet. |
| 0:41.3 | An Israeli government spokesperson David Menzer downplayed the development |
| 0:45.1 | and said the war cabinet was no longer necessary. |
| 0:48.3 | The war cabinet in the coalition was in the coalition agreement with National Unity |
| 0:53.6 | MK, Benny Gantz, at his requests. |
| 0:57.1 | With Mr Gantz leaving the government, |
| 0:59.6 | there is no more need for this extra branch of government. The security cabinet is granted |
| 1:05.4 | authority by the state to make decisions together with the full cabinet. |
| 1:10.1 | Allison Kaplan Sommer is a journalist and host of the Israeli left-wing newspaper |
| 1:15.0 | Herrett's news. |
| 1:16.3 | Herrett's news, she's also the presenter of the podcast. |
| 1:19.2 | She explained what the latest developments mean. |
| 1:22.3 | It's no longer called the war cabinet, but decisions are |
| 1:25.6 | going to be made in the same sort of small group of leaders that it was before |
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