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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Former PM Olmert slams comments by ministers on starving Gaza: ‘What is it, if not a war crime?’
Stav Levaton is a military reporter for The Times of Israel
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert tells CNN that recent statements by senior Israeli ministers advocating the starvation of Gaza amount to “war crimes.”
“What is it, if not a war crime?” he challenges, adding, “How can a serious person representing the Israeli government… spell it out in such an explicit manner that we should starve Gaza, that there should be no supply of basic, fundamental humanitarian needs?”
He goes on to claim that the ongoing conflict no longer appears to be “a war against Hamas.”
“This looks more and more like a political war,” Olmert says, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what he calls his “group of thugs” of driving the government’s actions.
According to Olmert, the government’s intents “can’t be interpreted in any other way” than as war crimes.
Olmert told the BBC last week that what Israel “is doing now in Gaza is very close to a war crime.”
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