The Cabinet approved, after a five-and-a-half-hour nighttime meeting, the establishment of humanitarian aid zones that will separate the Gaza population from Hamas. Ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich voted against bringing humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip in the "interim period" alongside the humanitarian zones. During the discussion, a sharp dispute erupted between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir regarding the pace of implementing these zones, and there was also a confrontation between Smotrich and Zamir that escalated to shouting - during which Netanyahu intervened and even pounded on the table to calm tensions. Smotrich accuses the military of not implementing the political leadership's directives regarding humanitarian separation.