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Published date: 7 August 2025 11:52 BST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls from senior ministers to advance ceasefire negotiations and deliberately restricted all aid to Gaza in order to force a surrender from Hamas, internal government transcripts published by Israeli news outlet Channel 13 have revealed.

The transcripts from an Israeli war cabinet meeting on 1 March show that Netanyahu ignored repeated calls from senior defence officials to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in order to secure the release of Israeli captives, and then to renew hostilities after.

Netanyahu instead chose to unilaterally break the ceasefire in March and bar all aid to Gaza, in the hopes of forcing a surrender by Hamas.

This was despite Hamas complying with the talks, contrary to the war cabinet’s expectations.

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It pisses me off, it's what all Israel's supporters say.

"Oh it wouldn't be necessary if Hamas didn't make them do it."

It sickens me that they believe any group of people to be such non-persons that it's justified to treat them this way..... These are human beings and what's happening to them is not cosmic accident or common misfortune. They're being tormented to death, by people who revel in causing pain.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

This is the end stage of the "War on Terror". We've fully internalized anyone with a Muslim faith (or with a skin tone associated with a Muslim faith) as a terrorist. Elderly civilians are simply terrorist who never got caught. Children are future terrorists. Everyone in between is a "Military Age" threat to national security.

In the same way that Africans in America are correlated with criminals and gangsters, East Asians are marked out as academic cheats, Hispanics are labeled as lazy welfare queens, and the LGBTQ cohort are regularly called pedophiles, Arabs are de facto scary religious radicals. Killing them is no crime. It's always some form of self-defense.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Nazis said similar things when "liquidating" the Warsaw Ghetto after the Jewish resistance mounted an uprising.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Resistance to the Oppressor is used to justify the Oppression itself.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

What do you think is going to happen in America the first time someone peels one at an ICE operative?

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

There's no excuse for war crimes, no justification for crimes against humanity. NONE