According to Reuters, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he wanted his government to fulfil its term, laying responsibility of triggering an expected early election on to a coalition partner. Netanyahu has faced calls from his coalition members to hold a snap election after the resignation of Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday. Lieberman quit over what he described as the government’s too-soft policy on an upsurge of cross-border violence, leaving the government with a razor-thin majority.