In a rare admission from within the Israeli political establishment, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has publicly declared that “Israel is committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip”, and that the ongoing assault has no national purpose or strategic value.
Speaking to NPR Radio, Olmert criticised the actions of Netanyahu’s government, stating:
“Calls by Israeli ministers to annihilate and starve the population of Gaza are blatant calls for war crimes.”
He further condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to respond to these extremist statements, essentially allowing such rhetoric to become normalized policy.
Olmert: “This War Serves No Purpose”
Olmert emphasised that the continued expansion of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza will not serve any legitimate military goal.
“We are all fully aware that there is no achievable objective that justifies the continuation or escalation of this war.”
He previously described the war on Gaza as a “genocidal campaign that is aimless and senseless”, stating that its continuation appears deliberate—meant to avoid accountability, prolong conflict, and distract from the failure to rescue Israeli captives.
According to Olmert, over 1,000 senior Israeli military officers have called for the war to end immediately, citing its futility and moral bankruptcy.
“A War With No Goal—A War With No Hope”
“This is a war with no objective. A war with no hope of saving even one hostage’s life,” said Olmert, adding that the only visible outcome so far is the mass killing of innocent Palestinian civilians and the loss of many Israeli soldiers.
He described the campaign as shameful, warning that the price of this war is being paid not by military targets but by the thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.
“This Is Not a War Against Civilians” — A Hollow Claim?
While Olmert attempted to distinguish between targeting Hamas and targeting civilians—stating, “We are at war with Hamas, not with innocent civilians. This must be clear.”—his own condemnation implicitly acknowledges that the Israeli government’s current conduct blurs, if not erases, that line completely.
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Olmert’s remarks, while rare, confirm what Palestinians and justice-seekers have shouted from the rooftops: that the war on Gaza is not only illegal and immoral—it is a war of annihilation, dressed in the language of security but executed through the logic of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
When even former Zionist leaders admit to war crimes, the world must stop pretending this is a complex conflict. It is not. It is a colonial massacre in real-time, and history will not forget.
