IDF Chief of Workers Lt. Gen Eyal Zamir reportedly yelled at cupboard ministers that they need to conform to a hostage launch deal slightly than push forward with an expanded navy operation within the Gaza Strip, whereas additionally complaining that not sufficient effort is being made to achieve such an settlement.
Ministers, in response, berated Zamir that his previous recommendation had been proven to be misguided, in accordance with a Channel 13 report on the allegedly heated trade.
It was the most recent in a sequence of reported clashes between the military chief and ministers over how the Gaza warfare is being managed.
Zamir met with a slender discussion board of ministers, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday night to debate the Gaza warfare plans, which embody an operation to beat Gaza Metropolis. Hebrew media experiences didn’t give a full roster of who was on the assembly.
“I’m making ready the military for floor maneuvers and am calling up reservists to defeat Hamas as per your directions,” Zamir advised ministers, in accordance with the unsourced Channel 13 report.
“Why isn’t the negotiating crew touring around the globe now, so as to carry a couple of deal by drive?” he questioned. “Why will we all the time must depend upon [the US]?”
L-R: Protection Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Workers Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, and IAF chief of workers Brig. Gen. Omer Tischler on the IAF’s command middle, August 24, 2025. (Elad Malka/ Protection Ministry)
“Why is Dadi sitting right here?” Zamir requested, utilizing Mossad chief David Barnea’s nickname. “Why are you in Israel? Go carry us a deal by drive!”
Barnea is main Israel’s negotiating crew amid worldwide mediation efforts to achieve a ceasefire take care of Hamas that may return the hostages taken by the phobia group throughout its October 7, 2023, invasion and bloodbath in southern Israel. Of the 251 hostages that terrorists kidnapped throughout the assault, 47 stay in captivity.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer responded by reminding Zamir that, earlier than Israel launched attacks on Iran in June to destroy its nuclear services, which have been seen as an existential menace to the Jewish state, the military chief had apparently predicted that the US wouldn’t be part of Israel’s bombing marketing campaign. US participation was seen as very important in taking out sure key websites. The US did, actually, ultimately perform a single spherical of strikes on these nuclear websites, after which instantly brokered a ceasefire to finish the preventing.
“You stood right here and mentioned that the US received’t be with us in Iran, that they received’t combat alongside us,” Dermer reportedly advised Zamir. “In the long run, every thing that occurred contradicted what you mentioned and your assessments.”
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer speaks on the Jewish Information Syndicate convention in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
“There’s a deal on the desk now, and it’s there solely as a result of we didn’t hearken to you and we didn’t undertake your place,” Dermer reportedly added, referring to a present US-proposed ceasefire and hostage launch framework.
“So take the deal!” Zamir yelled again, the outlet mentioned.
Earlier within the assembly, Netanyahu confronted navy chiefs over leaks to the media which have dwelt on variations of opinion between the military chief and the federal government in regards to the Gaza Metropolis operation, Channel 12 reported.
“What is that this?” Netanyahu mentioned as he waved round articles on Zamir’s opposition to the operation, in accordance with the report. “Cease giving briefings in opposition to the operation. This can’t proceed. We made the choice, and you want to carry it out. This isn’t a military that has a rustic; it’s a rustic that has a military.”
Nationwide Safety Minister Itamar Ben Gvir then challenged Zamir: “What’s your response to those accusations?”
Zamir responded that he was unaware of any briefings given to journalists.
Throughout the assembly, he additionally reportedly raised his concern in regards to the heavy worth the operation would actual in troopers’ lives and Israel’s worldwide relations. Zamir has beforehand warned ministers that the operation may price the lives of dozens of troopers, Channel 12 reported.
Most Israelis, in accordance with surveys, favor a deal to launch the hostages held by Hamas and finish the warfare. Notably robust opposition to the Gaza Metropolis plan has come from households of hostages, just some 20 of whom are thought to nonetheless be alive.
