OCCUPIED PALESTINE — Former Israeli General Amiram Levin has called Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza a “genocide” and a “crime,” just days after two leading Israeli human rights groups also said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
“The government’s orders are criminal. You should call it by its name– giving an order to shoot at hungry children & their parents as they seek a loaf of bread, because they’re surrounded by 2 Hamas guards, is a crime. It’s genocide, that’s what we’re doing,” Levin, a retired Israeli general who commanded the Northern Command and served as deputy director of the Mossad, said.
WOW!
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) August 3, 2025
While defenders of Israel in the West deny genocide, deny starvation, or blame it on the UN, the former deputy director of Mossad, Amiram Levin, calls it a genocide!
"The orders the government is giving the army today are a crime… To give an order to shoot at hungry… pic.twitter.com/sQ6Iedb7GO
In 2023, the former top general in the Israeli military said that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank resembles Nazi Germany and is “total apartheid”.
Levin’s views on Israeli violations and assaults appear to have taken a marked turn: in a 2017 interview with Israeli daily Maariv, he claimed that Palestinians “deserved the occupation”.
In April 2023, he called to “flatten” whole neighborhoods in Gaza.
Levin’s Gaza genocide remarks came just days after B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide, an assessment previously reached by some organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Award-winning Israeli author David Grossman also called Israel’s assault on Gaza a “genocide,” saying he now “can’t help” but use the term after years of refusing to use it.
In an interview published on Friday, the world-renowned writer and peace activist told the Italian daily La Repubblica, “I ask myself: how did we get here?”
“How did we come to be accused of genocide? Just uttering that word – ‘genocide’ – in reference to Israel, to the Jewish people, that alone, the fact that this association can even be made, should be enough to tell us that something very wrong is happening to us.”
C. QNN
