Israel's Gantz threatens to quit unless post-war Gaza plan approved

Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday that he would resign from the body unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a day-after plan for the Gaza Strip.

Gantz, Netanyahu's main political opponent, demanded that the government adopt a six-point plan for the war in Gaza in three weeks' time.

"The war cabinet must formulate and approve by June 8 an action plan that will lead to the realisation of six strategic goals of national importance... [or] we will be forced to resign from the government," Gantz said, referring to his party, in a televised address directed at Netanyahu.

Gantz's proposed plan would include establishing a temporary US-European-Arab-Palestinian system of civil administration for Gaza while Israel retains security control.

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