Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid said Israel’s primary objective must be to secure a hostage deal with Hamas, criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as being “in a tailspin” with “no vision”. “It’s a difficult decision, but the time has come to make it,” Mr Lapid wrote in an opinion piece for the Haaretz newspaper. “We can return to Rafah at a later date. Now we must do everything we can to bring the hostages back home,” he added.
