Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi to reprimand the head of the military intelligence directorate Shlomi Binder, after he warned that Trump’s plans to take over Gaza would result in an escalation of violence in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reports.
“There will be no reality in which [Israeli army] officers will speak out against US President Trump’s important plan regarding Gaza, and against the directives of the political echelon,” Katz said in a statement cited by The Times of Israel newspaper.
“I ordered the [army] to prepare to advance the plan for the voluntary departure of Gaza residents who would be interested in leaving to various places in the world, and that is exactly what the [army] is required to do and will do,” he added.
