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Ex-Israeli PM condemns government "thugs" carrying out "war crimes" in Gaza
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert condemned the "thugs" in the government of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, doubling down on his accusation that they are committing "war crimes" against Palestinians in Gaza. Olmert's comments came during an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria in which the former Israeli leader discussed a recent opinion article he wrote for Israeli newspaper Haaretz titled: "Enough Is Enough. Israel Is Committing War Crimes."
"What Netanyahu is doing, and a group of thugs, which are part of his Cabinet, is polarizing the Israeli society," he said. The former prime minister said that it's "important" that the international community know that these current Israeli leaders are not the "voice" of his country.
The strong rebuke from a former Israeli leader is significant, particularly as it aligns with many international and domestic critics of the current government's actions against Palestinians. Olmert served as Israel's prime minister from 2006 to 2009, and as deputy prime minister and the mayor of Jerusalem prior to that.
The former prime minister said during his Sunday CNN interview that there is "no objective" that Israel can achieve through expanding its military operations in Gaza.
"Thousands of non-involved Palestinians are going to be killed as a result of further military operations, which almost no one in Israel thinks is at this time valid and is going to achieve anything of value," he said. Olmert slammed Israeli ministers, describing them as the "thugs of the Cabinet," who have called for "starving Gaza." He said the Israeli government officials have called for all Palestinians to be "wiped out" and "starved." "This is a war crime. There is no other word to describe it but a war crime," he said. "The fact that senior Israeli ministers in the Cabinet called expressly and explicitly to deny any humanitarian needs from the people in Gaza, a couple of million people living in Gaza, and they say they should all starve and be demolished. This is a call for war crime by the many senior ministers in the Cabinet," he said.