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Former Defense Minister Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes in Gaza (New York Times, 2024-12-01)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-yaalon.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.eU4.1-wh.rejCW7rDtIJh
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———“At an event on Saturday, Mr. [Moshe] Yaalon denounced Mr. Netanyahu’s government for its actions in Gaza.
““The path they’re dragging us down is to occupy, annex, and ethnically cleanse — look at the northern strip,’ he said. He also said Israel was being pulled in the direction of building settlements in Gaza…”
“‘I’m speaking in the name of IDF commanders who are operating in the northern strip,’ Mr. Yaalon told the Reshet Bet radio station [on Sunday]. ‘They reached out to me expressing fear about what’s happening there.’
“He later said, in an apparent reference to the government: ‘At the end of the day, they’re perpetrating war crimes’ — while making clear that his issue was not with the soldiers themselves.”