The head of Israel’s biggest opposition party said on Monday he would lend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his support in parliament to keep him in office if members of the ruling coalition quit over a ceasefire deal, Reuters reports.

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, said at a meeting of his parliamentary faction: “There’s a hostages deal on the table. It is not true that Netanyahu has to choose between the hostages deal and the continuation of his tenure as prime minister.”

“Let him do the deal,” Lapid said. “I promised him a safety net and I will keep that promise,” he said, referring to a scenario if Netanyahu’s coalition partners quit. He said that was a difficult decision to make, given his opposition to Netanyahu, but “the most important thing is to bring the hostages home.”