Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli army will carry out any directive or decision requested of it regarding Iran, and denied any rift between the political and military leadership, stressing full coordination between them. His remarks came amid internal debate over the possibility of resuming military operations against Tehran, and after Eisenkot called on the heads of the security establishment to back them against what he described as the use of Israel's security for political purposes.
The three coverages matched on the substance of Katz's remarks, differing only in ordering and wording: one led with the denial of disagreements and the warning of a response to an Iranian attack, another linked the statement to Eisenkot's earlier call, and a third confined itself to the wording of carrying out "directives" without detail.