“Business cost attack: blood for votes,” MP Ofer Cassif, a member of the left-wing Hadash party, wrote on Twitter.
The politician accused interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz of resorting to violence to win more seats in the election.
However, he warned that such action “will only lead to a sea of tears and blood in the Gaza ghetto, where two million people have been imprisoned for 15 years, and also in Israel.”
Ayman Odeh, the highest figure of Hadash and the Joint List, an alliance of Arab and left-wing parties with representation in the Knesset (parliament), spoke in a similar vein.
The Israeli government commits war crimes against the Palestinian people to serve narrow political interests, and Gazans are paying the price in blood, he said on the same social network.
Odeh called for an immediate end to the conflict, stressing that only the end of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories will bring peace and security.
Lawmaker Sami Abou Shahadeh also denounced attempts by Lapid and Gantz to “do anything to stay in power, including the murder of a five-year-old girl.”
This new war crime is part of an immoral electoral campaign to demonstrate that they can be as criminal as Netanyahu, he stressed, referring to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who last year during his mandate bombed the Gaza Strip.
Who will stop these war crimes? The international community continues to reward the Israeli occupation in such a way that Apartheid is deepening, Abou Shahadeh lamented.
His colleague in the hemicycle Aida Touma-Sliman also criticized the military operations in the coastal enclave.
“Enough of the targeted attack on Gaza!! The killings and bombings will only lead to more suffering and destruction in Gaza and will not provide any security to the citizens of Israel,” he warned on Twitter.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was also horrified on that social network by the new round of attacks.
“This is how it looked last time. And so it goes on and on and on: more death, more injuries, more ruins, more loss, more fear and dread,” said the NGO, which published an image of rescuers pulling Palestinian bodies out of the rubble.
The new conflict began yesterday when Israel bombed suspected Islamic Jihad targets, killing 11 people so far, including one of the heads of the group’s military wing.
In response, the Palestinian formation fired volleys of rockets at Israeli territory.
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