Israel’s domestic divides deepen as Gaza war drags on

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Tel Aviv: Since it is grinding well in its twenty -two months, the Israeli war in Gaza has raised friends and family against each other and accelerated the current political and cultural division.

The hostage families and peace workers want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to seek ceasefire with Hamas and liberate the remaining kidnappers during the Hamas attacks in October 2023.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s right -wing members, in danger of giving rise to more international criticism, want to take advantage of this moment to occupy and affiliate with Palestinian soil.

This debate has divided the country and has stressed private relations, which has damaged the national unity at the moment of Israel’s longest war between its longest war.

“As the war continues, we are more and more divided,” said the 29 -year -old poet, an Israeli religious left -wing school teachers and peace workers, Emmanuel Yatzakki Levi, who attended the peace meeting in Tel Aviv’s Dizing Square.

He told AFP, “It’s really difficult that a friend, or family, a good son, a good brother for someone – from your point of view – supports crimes against humanity.”

“And I think it is difficult for them to help me too if they think I have cheated on my own country.”

As to identify this point, a long, black -haired cyclist, angry by the gathering, pulled out his motorcycle to accuse the participants of “treacherous” and accuse workers of Hamas’s hands.

No flowers

One of the city’s 36 -year -old activist, one of the city’s IT startups, stopped the city’s Scotter journey in the city’s Tel Aviv, to express a more reasonable criticism over the demand for peace workers’ fire.

Burko and others have accused international organizations of exaggerating the threat of defamation in Gaza, and told AFP that Israel should stop aid unless the remaining 49 hostages were released.

He argued that “the Palestinian people are under Hamas control. Hamas eats their food. Hamas has started this war and, in every war, bad things are going to happen. You are not going to send flowers on the other side.”

“So, if they open the war, they should understand and understand what is going to happen after opening the war.”

Independent journalist Marin Ripoport told AFP that the voices raised in Tel Aviv reflect a deep polarization in Israeli society as 1,219 people were killed in Hamas’s October 2023 attacks.

Former senior editor of the Liberal Daily Hertz, Ripoport, said Israel was divided before the recent dispute, and saw threats against Netanyahu’s strong anti -corruption protests and judicial independence.

The Hamas attack initially mobilized the wave of national unity, but the conflict has been dragged and Israel’s behavior has come under international criticism, the right and left on the right and left have become more stringent.

Political objectives

“The time Hamas worked there, he said.” “Almost Everyone saw him as a fair war.

“When the war continues, people have been concluded that the main motivations are not military reasons but political.”

According to a survey conducted between July 24 and 28 by the Institute for National Security Studies, 803 Jews and 151 Arab respondents, Israelis have blamed Hamas for delaying the agreement to liberate the hostages primarily.

Only 24 % of Israeli Jews are upset or “very upset or” very upset “by the humanitarian situation in Gaza-where according to unconfirmed reports,” a famine continues “and Palestinian citizens are often killed while searching for food.

But Israeli hostages have support for the hostages, many of whom have accused Netanyahu of artificially prolonging the war to strengthen their political position.

“The mandatory service of the Army is mandatory in Israel,” said Mika Almog, 50, a writer and a peace worker with the IT Times Coalition.

“So these soldiers are our children and are being sent to die in a false criminal war, which is still continuing for anything other than political reasons.”

In an open letter published on Monday, former top diplomats, military officers, military officers and spy chiefs of 550, called on US President Donald Trump to tell Netanyahu that the military phase of war had already won and now he would have to focus on the hostage agreement.

“At first, this war was a fair war, a defensive war, but when we achieved all the military goals, the war turned away from a fair war,” said Amy Ilylon, a former director of the BET Security Service.

He warned in a video released with the letter that the dispute was “causing the Israeli state to lose its security and identity.”

Security Officers Declaration – Those who recently prosecuted Israel’s clear and secret wars – echoed the views of experienced peace workers who have long protested against them.

‘Terrible period’

The Bible archaeologist and Kabotz resident Avy Over is 70 years old and has long campaigned for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

He and fellow workers wore yellow ribbons with lengths in the days of war: “667”.

The colorful historian was close to the tears when he told AFP: “This is the most terrifying period of my life.”

“Yes, Hamas is a war criminal,” he said. We know what they do. The first war was justified. Initially, this was not a genocide. “

Many Israelis do not use the term “genocide”, but they know that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is considering whether to rule the complaint that the country has violated the genocide.

Although only a few people have been threatened with hunger and violence on their neighbors, many are worried that Israel can become an international follower – and that their concrete sons and daughters will be treated like suspects of war crimes when they are abroad.

Israel and Netanyahu – with the support of the United States – has condemned the case in the Hague.