His departure will leave Mr Netanyahu more reliant on hardliners.
With Israeli minister Benny Gantz gone, PM Benjamin Netanyahu would lose the backing of a centrist bloc that has helped broaden support for the government in Israel and abroad.
“Netanyahu is preventing us from advancing toward true victory,” Mr Gantz said in a televised news conference. “That is why we are leaving the emergency government today, with a heavy heart but with full confidence.” While his coalition remains in control of 64 of parliament’s 120 seats, Mr Netanyahu will now have to rely more heavily on the political backing of ultra-nationalist parties, whose leaders angered Washington even before the war and who have since called for a complete Israeli occupation of Gaza.
Warning that the conflict in Gaza could take years, he urged Mr Netanyahu to agree on an election date in the autumn, to avoid further political infighting at a time of national emergency.
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