Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he now believes that his country's ruthless attack on the Palestinian people is equivalent to “war crimes” and must be stopped.
An article published in Hebrew by Olmert and published Haaretz from 2006 to 2009, he condemned the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for “engaging meaningless wars, without clear goals or plans, without chances of success,” he said.
Israeli politicians say that while Olmert wrote that he had previously defended his country from “accusations of genocide and war crimes,” he said he could no longer see widespread massacres of civilians, including women, children and the elderly, or viewing Gaza’s movement as a side damage in a “brutal war.”
“What we are doing in the Gaza Strip is a war of extinction: indiscriminate, unrestrained, cruel and criminal killing of civilians,” he said.
“We do this not because of accidental loss of control in a particular department, not because of disproportionate outbreaks of fighter jets in a certain department, but because of government-decided policies, intentional, intentional, malicious, malicious, reckless, reckless, reckless, reckless, reckless,” continued Olmert. “Yes, we are committing war crimes.”
Last week, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saw an op-ed during a demonstration in Tel Aviv in March 2023, condemning his country for committing “war crimes” in Gaza. Jack Guez via Getty Images
Olmert also wrote that the current government can no longer refute criticism of military attacks or block food and medical supplies as anti-Semitism, like Netanyahu was once again faced with anti-Semitism last week.
When French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a joint statement asking Israel to “stop its military operations in Gaza” and “immediately allow humanitarian aid” to enter the region, Netanyahu accused the trio of “cowardly Hamas” with the aim of “eliminating the Jews.”
“Your justice is wrong when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you,” he wrote in an article on X.
Olmert describes Netanyahu and his “gang of criminals” as unwise prejudice, “the chorus of the Netanyahu government and the poison it operates will immediately jump into and curious screams: the Gentiles are opponents.
“The fact is, these governments are not anti-Israel, but anti-Israel governments,” he said.
People commute to and from get off work on Sunday along Al-Rashid Road in Gaza, the only route connecting the northern and southern regions of the Palestinian territory. Parenting images by Getty Images
Olmert warned at the end of his work that Israel must be aware of these warnings: “In the case of all of us being excluded by international families and being summoned to the International Criminal Court for International War Crimes, and a good defense will not have a chance to us.”
Israel began allowing limited supplies to the region last week after two and a half months of blocking food and medical assistance from entering Gaza.
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres said the level of aid was still insufficient and condemned Israel's military offensive that “intensified the cruel levels of death and destruction.”
According to the May number of people from the Gaza Ministry of Health, 52,615 people have been killed since the conflict in the region on October 7, 2023, and more than 1,200 Israelis were killed 19 months before the Hamas attack.
