Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his popular defense minister — a key Biden administration contact — in a surprise announcement Tuesday after months of butting heads over the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu personally handed Yoav Gallant his termination letter after a brief meeting in the premier’s office, the Times of Israel reported.

“Unfortunately, although in the first months of the war there was trust and there was very fruitful work, during the last months this trust cracked between me and the Defense Minister,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

“I made many attempts to bridge these gaps, but they kept getting wider,” he added. “They also came to the knowledge of the public in an unacceptable way, and worse than that, they came to the knowledge of the enemy — our enemies enjoyed it and derived a lot of benefit from it.”

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