A former Israeli prime minister accuses his country of “war crimes”: “The criminal band led by Benjamin Netanyahu has established an unparalleled precedent”

Ehud Olmert, prime minister of the country in 2006-2009, argues that Israel commits war crimes in the Gaza strip and that “thousands of innocent Palestinians are killed, as well as many Israeli soldiers,” the Guardian reports.

Olmert wrote, in an article of opinion for the Israeli publication Haaretz, that “the Government of Israel is currently aimless war, without objectives or a clear and without chances of success.”

“Since its establishment, the state of Israel has not wore such a war (…).

Ehud Olmert, who is part of the same party as Prime Minister Netanyahu, Likud, claims that “useless victims among the Palestinian population” have reached “monstrous proportions” in recent weeks.

“The recent operations in Gaza have nothing to do with legitimate war objectives,” he wrote. “This is now a private political war. Its immediate result is the transformation of the gas into an area of ​​a humanitarian disaster,” added Ehud Olmert.

The former Israeli prime minister says he has often stated that his country does not commit war crimes in the Gaza strip and that he has believed that “in no case a government official has given orders to hit the civilians in Gaza.”

However, in recent weeks, “I have not been able to do this,” Olmert continued. “What we do now in Gaza is a devastating war: killing without discrimination, unlimited, cruel and criminal of the civilians. It is the result of government policy-knowingly dictated, with wickedness, wickedness and irresponsibility,” considers the former Israeli prime minister.

“Yes, Israel commits war crimes,” he concluded.

In an interview given last week for the BBC, Olmert described the conflict that continues in Gaza as “a purposeless war-a war without any chance to achieve something that could save the lives of the hostages.”

Harsh reactions in Israel

The remarks made by Olmert for the British post have sparked controversy in Israel. The far -right parties condemned the statements, who came against the background of the statements made by the leader of the Democrats, Yair Golan, former deputy chief of staff of the Israeli army, who had said for the national radio station Kan that “a healthy country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby”.

The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Saar, accused Ehud Olmert and Yair Golan of “take an active part in a diplomatic campaign, a propaganda war and a legal war against the state of Israel and the IDF (the Israeli army, no).”

The Minister of Education, Yoav Kisch, said that Olmert and Golan joined a “left-handed choir that defames Israel in the International Arena.”

“While IDF troops risk their lives against killer terrorists looking for our annihilation, he decides to incite and put a knife in the back,” Kisch said.

The Minister of Social Equality, May Golan, accused Olmert of “spit in front” on the Israeli soldiers. “To be accurate, there are innocents in Gaza-58 of them,” she said, referring to the Israeli hostages held captive in the territory.