Hundreds of Israeli former offices are appealing to Trump to help end the war in Gaza

A group of about 600 retired Israeli security officers, including former intelligence agencies, wrote to US President Donald Trump to put pressure on Israel to immediately end the Gaza war.

“Our professional judgment is that Hamas is no longer a strategic threat to Israel,” staff said.

“Your credibility with the greater part of the Israelis increases your ability to lead the Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu and his government in the right direction: Complete the war, return the hostages, stop suffering,” they wrote.

Their appeal comes against the backdrop of reports that Netanyahu insists on expanding military operations in Gaza, as negotiations to end fire with Hamas are torn.

Israel began a devastating war in Gaza after Hamas’s attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken in Gaza as hostage.

More than 60,000 people have been killed as a result of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since then, says Hamas Health Ministry.

On Monday, the ministry announced that at least 94 people were killed in Gaza, including dozens that were said to have died in Israeli strikes.

At least 24 people were killed while looking for help, she added. Such reports have been happening almost daily in recent months, but it is difficult to check that international journalists, including the BBC, are blocked by Israel to enter the gas independently.

The territory also experiences mass deprivation as a result of severe restrictions imposed by Israel on what is allowed in gas. The ministry says 180 people, including 93 children, have been killed by malnutrition since the beginning of the war.

UN-backed agencies said the “worst hunger scenario” in Gaza is currently being played.

The last intervention of the best former Israeli officials came after videos of two enchanted Israeli hostages were released by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters.

The videos were widely condemned by Israeli and Western leaders.

After publishing the videos, Netanyahu talks to the two families of hostages, telling them that efforts to return all hostages “will continue and mercilessly.”

But an Israeli employee – widely quoted by the local media – said Netanyahu was working to release the hostages through the “Hamas Military Defeat”.

The possibility of a new escalation in gas can further anger Israel’s allies, who insist on an immediate cessation of fire, since reports that the Palestinians are dying of starvation or malnutrition causes shock around the world.

The main group supporting the hostages of the hostages has condemned the idea of a new military offensive, saying, “Netanyahu is the leading Israel and the hostages to the doom.”

This opinion was made emphasized in the letter to Trump by former Mossad boss Tamir Pardo, but Aylon, former Chin Beth chief – Israel’s Internal Secret Agency – former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.

“At first, this war was a just war, a defensive war, but when we achieved all the military goals, this war stopped being a just war,” Ayyalon said.

Former senior leaders lead Israel’s security group commanders, which in the past calls on the government to focus on securing the hostages.

“Stop the war in Gaza! On behalf of the CIS, the biggest group of former IDF and Mossad, Shin Bet, police and diplomatic equivalents, we urge you to end the war in Gaza. You did it in Lebanon. It’s time to do it in Gaza,” the US president wrote.

Israel is confronted with increasing international isolation as the widespread destruction in gas and the suffering of the Palestinians cause indignation.

Polls around the world suggest that public opinion is increasingly negative for Israel, which puts pressure on Western leaders to act.

But it is not clear what pressure, if one, Trump will choose to exercise the Israeli prime minister.

The US President has consistently supported his union, although last week he acknowledges that there is a “real hunger” in Gaza after Netanyahu insisted that there was no such thing.