Israel 'sending soldiers to commit war crimes in Gaza', says former army chief
Israel 'sending soldiers to commit war crimes in Gaza', says former army chief
Israel 'sending soldiers to commit war crimes in Gaza', says former army chief
Moshe Yaalon, who also served as Benjamin Netanyahu's defence minister, accuses the government of 'losing touch with Jewish morality'
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29925904
By MEE staffPublished date: 9 May 2025 14:10 BST
"Yaalon attacked the current military chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, saying he was not stopping “clearly illegal orders” and was ordering “his soldiers to be war criminals”.
“Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation - it’s a war crime,” Yaalon said, describing plans led by far-right Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir to occupy the entire Gaza Strip and evacuate its Palestinian population."