Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved his government's war cabinet, a week after two of its centrist members resigned in protest.

Set up just days after the October 7 Hamas attacks - the emergency panel helped oversee the war in Gaza - until now. Alon Pinkas says while the War Cabinet has no constitutional powers - it was a convenient political body set up for political expediency. He says it functioned as a "protective political shield" for Netenyahu - which he's now deprived of.

• Guest: Alon Pinkas, former Israeli diplomat, advisor to Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres, senior columnist at Haaretz