A meeting of the Israeli cabinet exploded on Thursday evening after several ministers attacked representatives of the Israeli army who were present at the meeting, including Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, according to Israeli media reports overnight.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Transportation Minister Merav Regev, and Regional Cooperation Minister David Amsalem expressed their anger that the Israeli army was reportedly planning to involve officials who supported the disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 in the investigation into the events leading up to the October 7 attack.

According to Walla website, "At one point, War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz shouted at the ministers who attacked the Chief of Staff saying: 'This is a professional investigation, what does it have to do with disengagement and its concept? The Chief of Staff is conducting an investigation into what happened now to serve the goals of the war and our ability to prepare for the conflict in the north, this is not a national investigation.'

One minister told the KAN news network that "The discussion that exploded was disgraceful. They attacked the army, and some senior members of the defense establishment remained in the middle."

Another minister said: "We learned that they heard the ministers shouting from outside the meeting room."

Adding, "What happened there is unfortunate and shameful, you can criticize the army, but they attacked the Chief of Staff personally and endlessly. You have to think about whether this forum is worthy of making decisions at the level of our security policy, I don't think so."

Another minister told KAN: "I don't want to think about what will happen when our soldiers in the field hear about what happened there and how they attacked their Chief of Staff."

In the end, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended the meeting, telling Halevi: "Sometimes you need to listen to the ministers."