Far-right partners pressure Netanyahu not to end Gaza war

Right-wing extremist factions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government are ramping up pressure to keep up the Gaza war, after Israeli troops withdrew from the southern city of Khan Younis at the weekend. "If the prime minister decides to end the war without a broad assault on Rafah to decisively defeat Hamas, he will have no mandate to continue as prime minister," National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote on social media platform X on Monday. Despite fierce international opposition, Israel has maintained for weeks that it is planning a ground incursion into th...