EPAA group of some 600 retired Israeli security officers, including former heads of intelligence agencies, have written to US President Donald Trump to pressurize Israel to immediately end the war in Gaza.
Officials said, “It is our professional decision that Hamas is no longer a strategic threat to Israel.”
“Your credibility with the vast majority of Israel enhances your ability to run the Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and his government in the right direction: end the war, return the hostages, stop the sorrow, “he wrote.
According to his appeal reports that Netanyahu is emphasizing to expand military operations in Gaza as the indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas have stopped.
Israel launched a devastating war in Gaza after Hamas’s attack in Southern Israel on 7 October 2023, killing around 1,200 people and 251 was taken as hostages in Gaza.
Hamas -run Health Ministry says that since then more than 60,000 people have been killed as a result of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
The region is also experiencing massive decrease as a result of heavy restrictions imposed by Israel, which is allowed in Gaza. The ministry says that 180 people, including 93 children, have died of malnutrition since the war started.
Un-supported agencies have said that “the worst situation of famine in Gaza is currently playing”.
The latest intervention by top former Israeli authorities came after a video of Hamas and two weak Israeli hostages by the Islamic Jihad terrorists.
The video was widely condemned by Israel and Western leaders.
RootsAfter the video was released, Netanyahu spoke with two hostage families, told them that the attempt to return all the hostages would “continue and continuously”.
But an Israeli officer – widely quoted by local media – Netanyahu was working to free the hostages through “Hamas’s military necklace”.
The possibility of a new growth in Gaza may carry forward Israeli colleagues who are insisting on the immediate ceasefire as the news of Palestinians dying of starvation or malnutrition causes a shock worldwide.
The main group supporting the families of the hostages condemned the idea of a new military aggressive, saying: “Netanyahu is leading Israel and hostages to doom.”
The scene was performed in a letter to Trump among others by former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, former Shin Bet Chief Ami Aylan, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and former Defense Minister Moshe Yalone.
“Earlier this war was just a war, a defensive war, but when we achieved all military objectives, this war just stopped the war,” Ayalon said.
Former top leaders headed commanders for Israel’s security (CIS) group, which in the past urged the government to focus on achieving the return of hostages.
“Stop the Gaza war! On behalf of CIS, former IDF generals of Israel and Mossad, Shin Bet, Police, and the largest group of diplomatic core counterparts, we urge you to end the Gaza war. You did it in Lebanon. The time to do so in Gaza.”
Israel has faced international separation, as the widespread destruction in Gaza and the suffering of Palestinians expressed displeasure.
Elections around the world show that public opinion is rapidly negative about Israel, which is pressurizing Western leaders to take action.
But it is not clear whether the pressure, if any, will choose to occupy the Israeli Prime Minister.
The US President has consistently supported his colleague, even though he publicly admitted in the last week that there was “real starvation” in Gaza, when Netanyahu insisted that there was no such thing.
