Former Israeli Officials Affirm ‘hamas Is No Longer A Threat’

Affirming that Hamas nary longer poses a threat, immoderate 600 retired Israeli information officials, including erstwhile intelligence bosses, person asked US President Donald Trump to exert unit connected Israel to extremity nan warfare successful Gaza immediately.

“It is our master judgement that Hamas nary longer poses a strategical threat to Israel,” nan officials said successful a group statement. “Your credibility pinch nan immense mostly of Israelis augments your expertise to steer Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and his authorities successful nan correct direction: End nan war, return nan hostages, extremity nan suffering.”

One of nan signatories, ex-domestic intelligence agency main Ami Ayalon, told nan BBC that further subject action would beryllium useless. 

‘Hamas is wholly destroyed’

“From nan subject constituent of view, [Hamas] is wholly destroyed. On nan different hand, arsenic an ideology, it is getting much and much powerfulness among nan Palestinian people, wrong nan Arab thoroughfare astir us, and besides successful nan world of Islam,” Ayalon said. “So nan only measurement to conclusion Hamas’s ideology is to coming a amended future.”

It’s unclear what they expect from Trump, who has consistently backed Israel. However, past week, he publically accepted location was “real starvation” successful Gaza aft Netanyahu insisted location was nary specified thing.

Unfazed by guidance to his plans for nan Palestine territories, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose afloat reoccupying nan Gaza Strip erstwhile he meets his information cabinet, nan BBC reported connected Tuesday evening, August 5th.

Netanyahu wants ‘full conquest of Gaza’

“The dice has been cast. We’re going for nan afloat conquest of nan Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas,” section journalists quote a elder charismatic arsenic saying, according to nan British news outlet.

Israel’s subject has reported that it already controls 75 per cent of Gaza. But nether nan projected plan, it would inhabit nan full territory – moving into areas wherever much than 2 cardinal Palestinians are now concentrated. 

About 90 per cent of Gaza’s 2.1 cardinal group person already been displaced, immoderate repeatedly, and are surviving successful overcrowded and dire conditions. 

The families of Hamas’ hostages want Netanyahu’s plans to move guardant because they judge that otherwise, their relatives are astatine consequence of dying, pinch 20 retired of 50 still considered to beryllium live successful Gaza.

But isolated from nan group of 600 erstwhile Jewish authorities information and intelligence officials, polls of Israelis propose that 3 successful 4 are besides successful favour of a ceasefire.

Several of Israel’s closest friends besides condemn Netanyahu’s move arsenic they push for an extremity to nan warfare and action to alleviate a humanitarian crisis.