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Retired Israeli security officials urge Trump to help end Gaza War

Over 600 retired Israeli security officials, including former intelligence and military leaders, have written to US President Donald Trump urging him to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately end the war in Gaza, stating that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat.

The letter, spearheaded by the Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) group, warned that prolonging the conflict would only deepen suffering and risk the lives of remaining hostages.

Their appeal follows harrowing reports from Gaza, where over 60,000 people have reportedly died, many from starvation and malnutrition, and amid stalled ceasefire talks.

Prominent former security leaders who signed the letter included ex-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and former Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon.

Ayalon stated, “At first this war was a just war, a defensive war, but when we achieved all military objectives, this war ceased to be a just war.”

The group, which leads the Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) — comprising former IDF generals, Mossad and Shin Bet leaders, police commissioners, and diplomats — called on Trump to use his influence over Netanyahu to halt the war. “Stop the Gaza War! On behalf of CIS, Israel’s largest group of former IDF generals and Mossad, Shin Bet, Police, and Diplomatic Corps equivalents, we urge you to end the Gaza war. You did it in Lebanon. Time to do it in Gaza as well,” they wrote.

Despite international calls for a truce, Netanyahu is reportedly seeking to expand military operations.

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  1. The occupying Zio-Nazis are getting their asses kicked by the resistance fighters, and all these insane blood lusting non-semitic lunatics excel at is killing innocent unarmed semitic Palestinians, men, women and children ( over 500,000 in Gaza alone) and destroying all that they own with weaponry supplied by the Zionist leaders of the collective west.

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