Israel's emergency war government is on the verge of collapse after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused a deal for the release of Hamas hostages from Gaza.
Netanyahu says he will not agree to release thousands of Palestinian prisoners and withdraw Israeli forces from Gaza as part of a hostage deal
Amid pressure on the government to finalize a deal with Hamas for the release of the remaining 136 hostages, Tropper noted that ending the war in Gaza is not an option.
"We would have to pay a heavy price (in a hostage deal) but stopping the war is a price Israel is unwilling to pay," Tropper told 103FM. "If there is a deal we can live with and Netanyahu doesn't sign on it, we will leave the government.
Opposition leader and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid said soon after that his party would serve as a "safety net for any deal that will return the hostages to their homes."
"Yesh Atid will not allow (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu's political problems to block a hostage deal that would bring them home," the party wrote on X soon after. "Opposition leader Lapid said from day 1 that it would back any deal, and it will continue to do so. They must be returned home."
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant weighed in on the political tension, arguing in a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense (FADC) committee that a necessary condition to defeat Hamas was "unity on the national and political level."
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