Netanyahu Holds Emergency Meeting to Counter Largest Gaza Blockade-Breaking Fleet
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency and Al Jazeera, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that today’s security cabinet meeting will focus exclusively on military plans for Gaza. The issue of a prisoner exchange will not be raised during this session.
Israeli media also reported that the meeting, attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, security officials, and the Minister of Internal Security, will adopt measures to confront the largest flotilla sent to break Gaza’s blockade.
This flotilla is reportedly the biggest ever directed toward Gaza and poses not only political challenges but also potential military difficulties for Israel.
Maariv quoted a political Israeli source emphasizing that discussions about Israeli prisoners are absent from today’s agenda. According to this source, the meeting will concentrate on approving detailed plans, timelines, and troop deployments in Gaza ahead of launching operations.
The newspaper further noted that any future prisoner exchange would involve all captured Israelis, both living and deceased; however, so far there is no preparation regarding negotiation locations or assembling an Israeli negotiation team.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s opposition to advancing prisoner exchanges has intensified divisions among Israel’s leadership. In this context, Avigdor Lieberman-head of the “Israel Our Home” party and former defense minister-stated that Netanyahu should not be allowed to form a future cabinet.
Liberman added that Netanyahu forming a government would signify “the end of Israel as a Jewish Zionist democratic state.”
