Former Israeli security chiefs say Gaza war must end

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The former head of the Israeli internal security agency Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon, tells Newshour why he thinks Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu needs to end the Gaza war. Meanwhile, reports suggest that the prime minister may order the Israeli Defence Forces to seize and hold the entire Gaza Strip.

Also in the programme: the family of a Hiroshima atom bomb survivor reflect as the 80th anniversary of the bomb approaches; the devastation plastic pollution is wreaking on human health; and why Indian cricket fans have been ecstatic over today's game in London.

(Photo: Protest outside Israeli PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem. Credit: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. I'm Tim Frax.
0:11.2	President Trump received a letter today, or at least one was sent to him. It was from a group called Commanders for Israel's Security, former heads of Israel's security agencies and military.
0:23.6	The message was simple. We urge you to end the Gaza War, they wrote. Along with a brief letter
0:30.8	asking Mr. Trump to persuade his Israeli counterpart, Binimin Netanyahu, to do just that, end the war.
0:37.7	There was also a slickly produced video with some of those former top officials,
0:42.7	many of whom have very hard-boiled reputations, even inside Israel,
0:47.2	saying, enough, it's time to stop.
0:50.7	No, we'll come a tsafebruv.
0:54.2	You heard the voice there's good. The war of notar median, Kuzer,
0:54.5	Khuzha.
0:55.2	You heard the voice
0:58.3	there of Tamir
0:59.9	Pardo, a former head
1:01.5	of the Mossad,
1:02.5	Israel's
1:02.8	external security
1:03.7	agency saying,
1:04.9	no matter how good
1:05.8	a military is,
1:06.8	a war with no
1:07.8	political goal,
1:09.3	is a guarantee
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