diff --git a/hack/list-images.sh b/hack/list-images.sh
index d78f92713..e31b5db11 100755
--- a/hack/list-images.sh
+++ b/hack/list-images.sh
@@ -131,11 +131,20 @@ done
 gojq --yaml-input --raw-output 'select(.kind | test("^(?:Deployment|Job|CronJob|StatefulSet|DaemonSet)$")) |
                                 (.spec.template.spec // .spec.jobTemplate.spec.template.spec) |
                                 (select(.containers != null) | .containers[].image), (select(.initContainers != null) | .initContainers[].image)' \
-				./services/git-operator/*/git-operator-manifests/* \
                                 ./services/kommander-flux/*/templates/* \
                                 ./services/kube-prometheus-stack/*/etcd-metrics-proxy/* \
                                 >>"${IMAGES_FILE}"
 
+# process git operator separately
+gojq --yaml-input --raw-output 'select(.kind | test("^(?:Deployment|Job|StatefulSet|DaemonSet)$")) |
+                                .spec.template.spec |
+                                (select(.containers != null) | .containers[].image), (select(.initContainers != null) | .initContainers[].image)' \
+				./services/git-operator/*/git-operator-manifests/* \
+                                >>"${IMAGES_FILE}"
+# we patch the cronjob image in this kustomization
+gojq --yaml-input --raw-output 'select(.kind | test("^(?:Kustomization)$")) | .images | map("\(.name):\(.newTag)") | .[]' \
+        ./services/git-operator/*/kustomization.yaml
+
 # Ensure that all images are fully qualified to ensure uniqueness of images in the image bundle.
 sed --expression='s|^docker.io/||' \
     --expression='s|\(^[^/]\+$\)|library/\1|' \
diff --git a/licenses.d2iq.yaml b/licenses.d2iq.yaml
index 2fd4c095d..1804cf76d 100644
--- a/licenses.d2iq.yaml
+++ b/licenses.d2iq.yaml
@@ -527,11 +527,6 @@ resources:
       - url: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-samples
         ref: v12.5
         license_path: LICENSE
-  - container_image: docker.io/bitnami/kubectl:1.29.6
-    sources:
-      - url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl
-        ref: v0${image_tag#1}
-        license_path: LICENSE
   - container_image: docker.io/bitnami/kubectl:1.30.5
     sources:
       - url: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl
diff --git a/services/git-operator/0.1.2/kustomization.yaml b/services/git-operator/0.1.2/kustomization.yaml
index 88bde23ba..672c78603 100644
--- a/services/git-operator/0.1.2/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/services/git-operator/0.1.2/kustomization.yaml
@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@ patches:
   target:
     kind: Certificate
     name: git-operator-git-webserver
+images:
+  - name: bitnami/kubectl
+    newTag: 1.30.5