Israeli opposition leader Lapid says government is ‘non-functional’

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said on Wednesday that as long as the current government is in power, Israel will not be able to win its war against Hamas.

“The government has lost control,” Lapid wrote on X. “Soldiers are killed every day in Gaza and they fight among themselves on television. The cabinet is disassembled and non-functional. Ministers protest in front of cabinet meetings.”

“One cabinet sends humanitarian aid convoys and the other burns them,” he continues. “Relations with the US are collapsing, the middle class is collapsing, they have lost the north.”

“You can’t go on like this. We will not win with this government,” he added.

Lapid’s comments come as Netanyahu, the minister of defence and other government officials publicly sparred over the Gaza war plan.