Golan’s comments a ‘clear admission’ of ‘genocide’ against Palestinians: Gaza media office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israeli attacks have killed more than 50 people in the past five hours, including 33 children.
In a statement on Telegram, the office says the death toll embodies a “complete crime and demonstrates the [Israeli] occupation’s insistence on using killing and starvation as means of war”.
It added that the attacks come as former Israeli deputy chief of staff, Yair Golan, said a “sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill children as a hobby”.
The media office said Golan’s comment “represents a clear admission from within the Israeli military establishment of the ongoing crime of genocide against our Palestinian people”.
“We affirm that this criminal behaviour by the occupation army, supported by this pattern of hateful and incitement-filled statements, reveals the true face of the occupation as a racist colonial regime practising organised terrorism in full view of the world,” the media office added.
Golan a ‘brave, direct man’, former Israeli PM Barak says
As we’ve been reporting, opposition leader and former deputy chief of staff for the Israeli military Yair Golan has come under fire from Israeli officials for his comments this morning that “a sane country … does not kill babies for a hobby”.
However, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak has called Golan a “brave, direct man” in stark contrast to Netanyahu’s condemnation.
“If I had to go on a raid tonight or a tough political campaign tomorrow, I would prefer him by my side, over all his detractors and defenders of the last few hours,” Barak wrote on X in Hebrew.
“Even if it would have been better if he had chosen 1-2 other words, it is clear that he meant the political leadership, not the fighters. And in the ‘processes’ precedent, he was also right!”
