JERUSALEM, Undefined -- Israeli lawmakers on Thursday endorsed an expanded 'emergency government', parliament said, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a war-time partnership with a rival.
This combination photograph created on October 12, 2023 shows a file photograph taken on October 24, 2022 of Israel's former defence minister Benny Gantz in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, and a file photograph taken on October 12, 2023 of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, in Tel AVIV.
Netanyahu, dressed in black, told parliament ahead of the vote that"the unity we are establishing sends a message of great force", vowing to"destroy Hamas". In a televised address, Lapid accused Israeli leaders of"unpardonable failure" for not preventing the brutal weekend attack by Hamas militants. Netanyahu and Gantz announced in a joint statement Wednesday they had agreed to join forces for the duration of the fighting, and with a three-member"war cabinet" that would also include Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.Under his agreement with Gantz, the premier has agreed to freeze the hardline government's divisive judicial overhaul, which had triggered mass street protests -- the biggest in the country's history.
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