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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led a high-level security meeting, as the US applies pressure to reach a deal in Gaza and secure the release of the captives.
Meanwhile, an Israeli court has postponed Netanyahu’s scheduled testimony in his long-running corruption trial.
His hearings were put off for the next two weeks, after the head of Mossad and the Israeli intelligence chief, cited national security concerns.
Just hours earlier, US President Donald Trump called for the case against Netanyahu to be dropped.
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut is in Jordan’s capital Amman and she’s there because the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera, from reporting inside Israel and the occupied West Bank. She says Netanyahu’s advisers are reassessing their strategy towards Gaza.
Gideon Levy, an Israeli author and Haaretz columnist, has expressed dismay at the “unbelievable” intervention of US President Trump in the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Israeli court delays Netanyahu’s testimony in corruption trial, citing national security priorities
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The Times of Israel reports the Jerusalem District Court has postponed Netanyahu’s planned testimony in his corruption trial this week after the Israeli prime minister argued “diplomatic and national security issues” need his attention.
According to Reuters, the ruling said that new reasons provided by Netanyahu, the head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the military intelligence chief justified cancelling the hearings.
The decision comes a day after Trump lambasted the trial itself, calling it a “POLITICAL WITCH HUNT” that the US is “not going to stand for”.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from Amman.
Alon Pinkas is a former Israeli diplomat and columnist for The Independent newspaper in the UK.
He joins us from Tel Aviv to discuss the latest developments.
Netanyahu unlikely to step down even if found guilty of corruption: Analysis
4,788 views Dec 11, 2024 #Israel #Bribery #AlJazeeraEnglish
The corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is underway.
On Tuesday, he was in court to give evidence and he’s expected back on Thursday.
He faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes dating back to 2019.
Prosecutors also accuse him of granting favours to media organisations, in return for favourable coverage.
Protesters gathered in front of the court during the hearing, demanding justice be served.
Meron Rapoport is an investigative journalist and editor of the Hebrew-language news site Local Call. He says that even if Netanyahu is found guilty of corruption, it won’t be enough to get him to step down.
Israel’s Netanyahu decries ‘absurd’ charges at corruption trial appearance
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken the stand for the first time in his long-running corruption trial, rejecting what he described as “absurd” allegations against him.
Appearing at a crowded courtroom in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, the embattled Israeli leader said the charges levelled against him were an “an ocean of absurdity”.
Israel’s longest-serving prime minister faces charges of bribery, fraud and breach of public trust in three separate cases. He has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
He took the stand for about four hours and will resume testifying on Wednesday. His military secretary twice handed him written messages, the first time requiring a recess and underscoring his having to do double duty as prime minister.
He attacked the Israeli media for what he called its leftist stance and accused journalists of having hounded him for years because his policies did not align with a push for a Palestinian state.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from Amman.
