Israeli anger grows in war behavior

Since the Israeli war in Gaza enters a new violent stage, the number of increasing votes inside the country is speaking against it – and how they are fought.

Yer Golan, a left -wing politician and deputy commander of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), angered Monday when he said: “Israel is on its way until it becomes an outcast country, like South Africa, if we do not return to act as a rational state.

He told the famous Israeli news program: “The rational state does not launch a war against civilians, and does not kill children as a hobby, and does not specify a target to clarify the population.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, describing the comments as “blood defamation”.

But on Wednesday, the former Israeli Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Army – Moshe Bougi Yalon – went further.

“This is not a” hobby “,” he wrote in a post on X, “but a government policy, its final goal is to adhere to power. It leads us to destruction.”

Just 19 months ago, when Hamas gunmen crossed the fence to Israel and killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, with 251 others to Gaza as hostages – these seem to be almost unimaginable statements.

But now Gaza is in ruin, Israel launched a new military attack, and although it also agreed to lift the siege for 11 weeks on the region, only. I entered so far from aid so far.

The latest polling from Israel Channel 12 found that 61 % of Israelis wanted to end the war and see the hostages that were returned. Only 25 % support the expansion of fighting and occupation Gaza.

The Israeli government insists that it will destroy Hamas and save the remaining hostages. Netanyahu says he can achieve “complete victory” – and maintains a strong essence of supporters.

But the mood is among others in Israeli society, “he is one of the despair, shock, and a lack of a feeling of the ability to change anything,” says the former Israeli hostage negotiator, others, Basin.

“The overwhelming majority of all hostages believes that the war should end, and there should be an agreement.”

“A small minority believes that the primary goal of completing Hamas is what to do, and then the hostages will be released.”

On Sunday, about 500 demonstrators, and many were wearing shirts with the engraving “Stop the horrors in Gaza” and carried pictures of children who were killed by Israeli air strikes, who tried to walk from the city of Sidrot to the Gaza border, in protest against the new Israeli attack.

They were led by standing together – a small but increasing group of Jewish and Palestinian citizens in Israel. After trying to prevent the road, the leader of the group, Alon Lee Green, was arrested, along with eight others.

From the arrest of the house, Mr. Green told the BBC: “I think it is clear that you can see the awakening within the Israeli public. You can see that more and more people are taking a position.”

Uri Wiltman, another activist together, said he believed that there is an increasing belief that continuing the war “is not only the harm of the Palestinian civilian population, but also risks the lives of hostages, risks the life of the soldiers, and risks our life all.”

In April, thousands of Israeli reserve soldiers – from all branches of the army – signed messages asking the Netanyahu government to stop fighting and focus instead on reaching a deal to return the remaining hostages.

However, many in Israel hold different views.

In the crossing of Kere Shalom to Gaza on Wednesday, the BBC spoke to Gideon Hashvit, who was part of a group protesting against the permissible aid.

He said of those in Gaza: “They are not innocent, as they chose a terrorist organization.”

It is against some parts of the most extreme society in society – settlers ’groups – The United Kingdom announced on Tuesday new sanctions.

In its strongest step so far, the United Kingdom has also suspended talks on a trade deal with Israel and summoned the country’s ambassador – with UK Foreign Minister David Lami Military escalation in Gaza is “morally undesirable”.

The European Union said it has declined an agreement to link with Israel, which governs its political and economic relationship-with the head of foreign policy Kaja Calas says “a strong majority” of members who prefer to look again in the 25-year-old agreement.

On Monday night, the United Kingdom joined France and Canada in signing a joint statement that he strongly formulated, which led to the condemnation of the military action of Israel and the warning of other “concrete measures” if the humanitarian situation in Gaza does not improve.

“The mood changes, the wind started blowing in the other direction,” says Wittman.