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Lieberman quits as Israeli defense chief
    2018-11-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

ISRAELI Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation yesterday and called for early elections after a sharp disagreement over a Gaza cease-fire deal, throwing the government into turmoil.

“What happened yesterday — the truce combined with the process with Hamas — is capitulating to terror. It has no other meaning,” Lieberman told journalists in explaining his reasons for resigning.

“What we’re doing now as a state is buying short-term quiet, with the price being severe long-term damage to national security.”

He added later: “We should agree on a date for elections as early as possible.”

Lieberman also said his party was leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, leaving the premier with only a one-seat majority in parliament.

Elections are not due until November 2019, but Lieberman’s resignation increases the likelihood of an earlier vote.

Lieberman, a security hard-liner, heads the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party, which holds five seats in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament.

Netanyahu has defended Tuesday’s cease-fire deal that ended the worst escalation between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza since a 2014 war.

Children in Israel’s south were heading to school early yesterday as an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took effect, putting an end to a brief yet intense flare-up with Gaza. The truce, announced Tuesday by Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, came after nearly two days of heavy shelling from both sides that had threatened to descend into full-blown war.

Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers said they would abide by the cease-fire as long as Israel did the same.

Israel’s Home Front Command removed late Tuesday all limitations on southern residents, sending children back to school after two days in shelters.

The U.N. Secretary-General’s Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq told CBS News’ Pam Falk that the global body had worked “very hard” with Egypt “to ensure that there is a return to the cease-fire arrangements of 2014.”

The U.N.’s Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process, “believes that it is possible to deescalate this current round of violence in the interest of both Palestinians and Israelis,” Haq told CBS News.

A diplomatic source close to the negotiations told Falk, however, that the “situation remains very precarious and can blow up again.”

The latest violence, was the worst between Israel and Palestinian militants since a 2014 war. In a statement issued late Tuesday, Egypt called on Israel to cease its “military action” in Gaza.

“Egypt’s efforts have been able to achieve a cease-fire between the resistance and the Zionist enemy,” the Gaza groups said.

(SD-Agencies)

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