So the Israelis purposely let this happen to justify destroying Gaza/carrying out ethnic cleansing?
Wouldn't put it past that dude to be honest. This is a dream come true politically. All the issues with his corruption and undemocratic attempts to seize power with changes to the Supreme Court that was about to get him out of there are the least of the population there concerns now. This is his reichstag fire moment, outside of setting the fire himself. But letting it happen is effectively the same thing...
I did read some opinions of people who live in Israel on reddit who don't like him and they are saying, while the population supports the government response to Hamas, the failure and absence of the government in the early stages has pissed off a lot of the population and may actually motivate people want to remove him more once things settle down. Based on what they are saying, he isn't going to get a Bush after 9/11 level boost in public support. It's more like given it's an emergency, they are OK being on the same page in addressing it but afterwards they may want to kick him to the curb.
You know in the coming months there will be a lot of investigations by the press there, if they aren't silenced, and if it comes out he purposely allowed this to happen on top of all the fukk shyt before hand, they will call for his head. Maybe true left wing politics can return to Israel. After Rabin was assassinated In the 90's that pretty much cemented permenant right wing rule since then.