Israel’s ex-defence minister Benny Gantz offers Netanyahu political truce to help secure Gaza hostage deal

Israel’s ex-defence minister Benny Gantz offers Netanyahu political truce to help secure Gaza hostage deal

Netanyahu’s coalition government depends on support from far-right members who oppose ending the war and making any deal with Palestinian group Hamas, whose October 2023 attack on Israel sparked the Gaza war

A protester holds a sign during a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release and a ceasefire in the war against Hamas, outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, on August 23, 2025. AFP