Demonstrators gather with placards during an anti-regime protest calling for an end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, outside the prime minister's residence in the occupied al-Quds on April 5, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Members of an infantry brigade of the Israeli military have signed a letter calling for an end to the gonging war in the Gaza Strip, as the regime is hit by a wave petitions expressing dissent against the protracted war.
Israeli Army Radio reported that 150 Golani Brigade soldiers have put their signatures on the letter demanding immediate negotiations aimed at securing the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Since Thursday, at least ten petitions have circulated against the continuation of the Gaza offensive, saying the Tel Aviv regime should prioritize the return of Israeli captives even if it means ending the war.
The first petition was signed by nearly 1,000 current and former Israeli air force reservists who said the Gaza onslaught "serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests."
They were referring to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on continuing the brutal genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
In response, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Air dismissed active-duty reservists who had signed the petition.
Netanyahu supported the dismissal, claiming that the petition was written by a "small group of radicals, operated by foreign-funded organizations" who are trying to "overthrow" his cabinet.
Separate petitions were signed by some 150 retired naval officers, over 250 reservists and veterans of the military's Unit 8200, and 1,525 Armored Corps veterans, including former prime minister and chief of staff Ehud Barak.
About 500 entrepreneurs, investors and workers from Israel's high-tech sector, as well as 2,000 Israeli military doctors, and more than 6,000 academics and education officials also wrote similar letters.
Other petitions were signed by hundreds of veterans from Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet spy agencies, along with over 1,500 veterans of the Israeli military's infantry units, the paratroopers and special forces.
Israel launched its deadly bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
In its operation, Hamas took 251 Israelis captive, 58 of whom now remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the occupation's military. Several of the captives have been killed in the regime's strikes on the besieged territory.
After one year and a half of war, the Tel Aviv regime has failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing captives, despite killing at least 50,983 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
