by Olivier Acuña Barba •Published: August 5, 2025•22:14•2 minutes read
Hamas flag was painted on a wall cracked by the shadow of a terrorist. Former Israeli officials say the group is no longer a threat and calls for a ceasefire in Gaza | Credit: Zmotions/Shutterstock
Confirming Hamas is no longer a threat, 600 retired Israeli security officials, including a former Intelligence News boss, urged President Donald Trump to put pressure on Israel to end the war soon.
“It is our expert judgment that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel,” the authorities said in a group statement. “Your credibility in the majority of Israelis will strengthen your ability to pilot Prime Minister Netanyahu (Benjamin).
One of the signatories, former chief of the domestic intelligence agency, Amia Yaron; I said The BBC has no use for further military action.
“Hamas will be completely destroyed.”
“From a military perspective, (Hamas) is completely destroyed. Meanwhile, as an ideological, we are gaining more and more power in the Palestinian people, the Arab streets around us, and in the Islamic world,” Ayalon said. “So the only way to defeat Hamas’ ideology is to present a better future.”
It is unclear what they expect from Trump, who has consistently supported Israel. However, last week he publicly accepted that there was a “real starvation” in Gaza after Netanyahu claimed that it would not be like that.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported on the evening of Tuesday, August 5, opposed plans for Palestinian territory.
Netanyahu wants “the perfect conquest of Gaza”
“Die has been cast. We’ll go to the full conquest of the Gaza Strip and defeat Hamas,” a local journalist cites a senior official saying, according to a British news outlet.
Israeli military has already reported that it controls 75% of Gaza. However, under the proposed plan, it will occupy the entire territory and move to an area where more than two million Palestinians are currently concentrated.
Approximately 90% of Gaza’s 2.1 million people have already been repeatedly evacuated, living in overcrowded and miserable conditions.
Hamas hostage families want Netanyahu’s plans. Otherwise, their parents believe they are at risk of death, and 20 out of 50 are thought to be still alive in Gaza.
But apart from the 600 former Jewish national security and the Intelligence Bureau group, Israeli polls suggest that three in four support the ceasefire.
Some of Israel’s closest allies also denounce Netanyahu’s move as they push for an end to war and actions to alleviate the humanitarian crisis.
