Netanyahu’s testimony in corruption trial cancelled amid renewed Gaza genocide
The Israeli prime minister’s testimony in a corruption trial has been canceled due to “security developments,” following the renewed attacks on Gaza which have so far killed hundreds of people, including many children.
According to the Hebrew-language Maariv daily newspaper, Benjamin Netanyahu had asked for his testimony on Tuesday to be cancelled, hours after the 75-year-old chairman of Likud right-wing political party oversaw the heavy bombardment of the besieged Palestinian coastal territory.
Netanyahu is facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. He appeared before the court on Monday in one of three long-delayed cases that he has described as a political “witch-hunt.”
Netanyahu's trial began on May 24, 2020. Under Israeli law, he is not required to resign unless convicted by the so-called Supreme Court, a process that could take several months.
Opposition leaders accuse Netanyahu of escalating the Gaza war to evade his trial, and achieve a victory that could protect him from conviction and keep him in power.
The Democrats party leader Yair Golan said the prime minister resumed the war in Gaza for political survival, arguing that soldiers and captives are “just cards in his game of survival.”
“Netanyahu is using the lives of our citizens and soldiers because he trembles in fear of us — the public protest against the dismissal of the head of the Shin Bet,” the left-wing leader said in reference to Netanyahu’s recent decision to fire Ronen Bar, the director of the regime's so-called internal security service – known as Shin Bet.
Israelis “must not let the madness win” and instead protest in order to save Israel “from the hands of this corrupt and dangerous man,” he said as he called for mass rallies.
More than 350 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed in Israeli air attacks on Gaza that started at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time (0020 GMT) on Tuesday, shattering the ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement.
Netanyahu’s office said the fresh onslaught was in response to Hamas’s “repeated refusal” to release remaining captives in Gaza, and the group’s failure to agree on ceasefire proposals from US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and other mediators.
In return, Hamas blasted “Netanyahu and his extremist administration” for overturning the January 19 ceasefire and “exposing prisoners in Gaza to an unknown fate.”
The resistance group also called for the “free people of the world” to protest the devastating attacks on the Palestinian territory.
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