Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to discontinue the support for Benjamin Netanyahu lead coalition government, terming their plans to take over Gaza city, “a half-measure”.

According a report by Times of Israel on Saturday, Smotrich regarded Netanyahu’s recent plan for “Victory in Gaza”, a “U-Turn”.

He said that he had worked intensivley with Benjamin Netanyahu to formulate the plans to overthrow Hamas from the Gaza and build strategies to establish their control in Gaza, but now the Israeli prime minister has taken a new direction, other than what had been decided.

Smotrich criticised Natenyahu’s government by alleging them to “Succumbed to weakness, let emotion win over reason and decided to do more of the same again”.

He termed latest military strategies hostile to a “complete victory” over Hamas. He spoke that these strategies would only pressure Hamas to agree to a “partial hostage deal”.

Israeli FM argued that this “is not how you win a war”. “Risking troops’ lives as well as international opprobrium in pursuit of such a strategy was an immoral and illogical folly,” he added.

“Unfortunately, for the first time since the war began, I feel that I simply cannot stand behind this decision and support it. My conscience does not allow it”.

He hinted towards a possible lost of faith in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“lost faith that the prime minister is able and wants to lead the IDF to a decisive victory.”