Benjamin Netanyahu’s government wants to drive Palestinians out of Gaza and pave the way for Israeli settlers.
This is what Israel’s former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon believes.
– I have an obligation to warn about what is happening there, he says according to Reuters.
Moshe Ya’alon – who was defense minister under Benjamin Netanyahu between 2013 and 2016 – is now a major critic of the Israeli leadership.
He believes that the country is guilty of war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.
– I have an obligation to warn about what is happening there and what is being hidden from us. In the end, it is war crimes that are committed, he told the Israeli public service channel Kan, according to the Reuters news agency.
A statement that Netanyahu’s Likud party completely rejects, calling it slander.
Has an arrest warrant against him
On November 22, the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu.
The ICC has singled out Netayahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as responsible for war crimes by using starvation as a weapon, as well as crimes against humanity through murder, persecution and other “inhuman acts”.
Netanyahu called the arrest warrant anti-Semitic.
The US has also condemned the order.