One of the strongest condemnations of Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza has come from its own former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who served from 2006 to 2009.

Last week, he wrote a scathing op-ed in the Israeli newspaper, Haretz, with the headline,

Enough is Enough, Israel is committing war crimes. I spoke with him earlier today.

Ehud Olmert, welcome to the News Hour. I want to begin with the day's news. The Israeli military said its forces opened fire this morning near crowds of Palestinians walking toward a new food distribution site in southern Gaza.

More than two dozen people reportedly killed.

This is the third such incident in its many days.

What's your assessment of the way Israel is relying on this new Gaza humanitarian foundation

to distribute food and assistance?

You know, I have to be honest to you.

I don't know. It seems to be in real chaos, and it have to be honest to you, I don't know.

It seems to be in a little chaos and it needs to be taken care of in a more effective manner

and I hope it will.

I don't think that there was any purpose in just shooting the people because someone wanted to kill them.

But in the context of this chaos, it happens, unfortunately, it has to be changed in a much better way.

And this is incommate for us to do it, and I hope we'll do it.

On the matter of your op-ed, what prompted your shift from previously defending Israel's actions in Gaza to now condemning them as war crimes?

I absolutely supported the Israeli counteroffensive after the 7th of October for obvious reasons.

All of the world supported Israel because this was inevitable and unavoidable.

However, it happened 20 months ago, and since then, a lot had happened.

And the fact is that after 20 months, there is a growing understanding in Israel.

By many former leaders of the army, the Mossade, secret service, the generals, almost everyone says that we have done

everything that we can do in the military operation. This is becoming like a private war of the

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