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submitted 1 year ago by pete_link@lemmy.ml to c/world@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29925904

By MEE staff
Published 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."

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 29 points 1 year ago

The important part is that this statement comes straight from the center of Israel's politics:

The Israeli military’s former chief of staff has accused his successor of “sending soldiers to commit war crimes” in Gaza and torn into Israel’s government for “losing touch with Jewish morality”.

In an interview with Israeli outlet Ynet on Thursday, Moshe Yaalon, who also served as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defence minister between 2013 and 2016, said Israel had abandoned the captives held by Hamas and was carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's that part that is the newsworthy bit, not the fact that Israel sends soldiers to commit crimes, but that an Israeli minister acknowledges it.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

I mean several of them acknowledge it, but this guy at least seems to think it's problematic.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

You don't see many that call it war crimes, is what I meant.

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