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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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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 week ago

Netanyahu and a disturbing amount of others see all Palestinians as Hamas. They aren’t starving civilians to death to pressure Hamas. They’re genociding all Palestinians on purpose because they don’t see them as human beings. It’s unspeakably horrible, and it’s being silenced.

The mainstream is hoping that when all Palestinians are dead or displaced they won’t have a voice to object.

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago

If you consider food a weapon, you have lost your humanity, and you will get no sympathy or support from me.

[-] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Was it ever a question that it wasn’t on purpose?

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Least surprising revelation ever. It's easy to have such ambitions when you don't consider an entire population people.

[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

At this point, who didn't already know that displacing (if not erasing) non-Israeli Gazans was the plan along?

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And Netanyahu's government has made plenty very similar on-the-record statements ever since it came into power.

[-] LMurch@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 week ago

Did he starve Hamas? Or did he starve Gazans while Hamas leaders were unaffected, accessing food as they wish? I think we know the answer.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Contrary to the Israeli claims there is no evidence of Hamas stealing food.

The video Israel published of the last moments of Yahya Sinwar showed him fighting on the front lines and until the last moment. Releasing that was very stupid from a propaganda perspective as Israel itself proved its claims about Hamas leaders hiding in tunnels and being well fed to be lies.

[-] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

W A R - C R I M E S

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yes the Netanyahu is made of Netanyahu

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Doesn’t matter. The laws of war don’t matter if you don’t subscribe and they’re not enforced.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No lie! Netanyahu's at war, can't stop or he'll face prison, the Israeli Jewish population believes Palestinians are sub-human vermin, and worst, the billions will cease flowing if he stops fighting.

There is NO reason he will stop. Sanctions didn't cripple Russia, not yet anyway. Like Putin, Netanyahu hopes to come out the other side unscathed. What choice does he have? Bashar al-Assad hung in there for a good while!

The only answer is superior violence. Killing fascists is the only path. Always has been, always will be.

All's fair in love and war people. This is nothing new.

EDIT: I'll add; Cutting off money is a faster path to peace. But AIPAC has bought and sold American and European politicians. Too late? I dunno.

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Bibi is literally the 21st century Hitler. He's doing everything to the Palestinian people that Hitler did to European Jews except putting them in ovens. So far.

[-] Der_Mann_mit_Hut@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Hamas doesn't surrender and 90% of the inhabitants of Gaza starves to death? WIN! Now you can "mop up" the remains and occupy the region with near to none opposition.

Hamas does surrender? WIN! You can claim a historic victory, jail every Hamas member that come forth and occupy the region with near to none opposition.

On a psychopathic level devoid of any ethics it is genious...

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If there is no armed resistance in Gaza, Israel can "mob up" without any difficulty.

The reason why many intelligence and military people now voiced concern is not because they care about the lives of the Palestinian people, but because Gaza is a nightmare to conquer and occupy. Hamas and other armed groups are very creative and had decades to fortify Gaza for another invasion. For instance a lot of the explosives they use for their traps are unexploded ordnance from Israeli attacks.

Israel in large part used to blow up buildings in Gaza with US made anti-tank mines. They move to use the D9 armored bulldozers instead, because the fighters could capture significant stockpiles of mines and use them to blow up Israeli tanks. Now the bulldozers are easy targets for sniper fire and explosive attacks. Israel seems to rarely send in soldiers on foot, instead relying on heavily armored troop carriers that end up becoming sitting ducks and targeted with self made rocket launchers, shaped charges or having an explosive dropped in the often open hatch. There even was a video of fighters using an artillery rocket by simply laying on the ground and triggering the charge so it would fly forward towards a target.

Israels army hasn't fought a proper war on the ground for many years. Most soldiers are just used to pushing around women and children in the Westbank than to actually fighting against an armed opposition. The key strength of Israel is its airforce. But bombing things to rubble only gets you so far, as the US and NATO have seen in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen...

[-] Baked86@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Remember everybody, jizzrael started the ethnic cleansing in the forties with the nakba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Right after the Holocaust.

There are many other countries with similar examples

It's almost as if human beings, from any and all races, are always controlled by a small group of assholes who like nothing more but to have power at any cost

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't believe it. I think Hamas is the excuse, starvation is the objective.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Again, Netanyahu is a genocidal maniac that should be tried in Neurenberg and sentenced to death there just to make the fucking point.

[-] Awkwardparticle@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I think you mean The Hague, that is where the ICC court is.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He needs the Mussolini treatment

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Of course it is, Benjamin Netanyahu is a damn war criminal. Gaza is becoming one big Nazi death camp.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"Gaza is becoming " it should "Gaza has been".

[-] Luouth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Because it wasn't obvious enough how much of a cruel psychopath this man was

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

basically holdomer, like what russia did with ukraine.

[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This is probably one of the top 10 dumbest war strategies in history. Make the population of the region you're eventually seeking to occupy hate you even more, and on top of that, it makes the very foolish assumption that Hamas leadership would give up if they see their Gazans suffer, which is so naïve it'd be funny if it weren't so sad. Hamas leadership doesn't give a shit if ordinary Gazans starve. In fact, they probably think it's all the better for their recruiting numbers, seeing that I have yet to see a single Hamas fighter suffering from malnutrition on the level of ordinary Gazans.

To external observers paying attention, this can only lead one to conclude either Netanyahu is a terrible military strategist or he's using this "strategy" as a cover to snuff out the entire Arab population of Gaza. For all I know, both are true!

[-] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He needs to be hung for crimes against humanity.

[-] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Why dont israels population vote this dictator out

[-] shane@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

Netanyahu is a terrible human being but an amazing politician.

In Israel all governments are coalition governments, and as Netanyahu got less and less mainstream support he tacked further and further to the right, joining with crazy religious fundamentalists because that was the only way to stay in power.

My understanding is that very shortly after losing power he will end up in court on corruption charges, and maybe die in prison. Not because of crimes against humanity, but for crimes against Israel.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Answered your own question, I think.

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