Yoav Gallant officially stepped down in a ceremony that replaced him with Israel Katz, the former foreign minister, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Gallant earlier this week, Al Jazeera reports.

Gallant thanked the military and warned the war’s “mission is not yet complete; we must meet our moral and traditional obligation, and the war’s objective is to bring home the remaining 101 hostages who haven’t yet seen their families and homes”.

Katz, his replacement, is a longtime Netanyahu loyalist and veteran cabinet minister.