Former Israeli Prime Minister: Netanyahu was in a state of nervous breakdown, as he sought to avoid being ousted from office for failing to protect national security after Hamas attacks.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "psychologically destroyed by his gross failure in the field of national security."

In an interview with Politico, Olmert said that Netanyahu was in a state of "nervous breakdown, as he sought to avoid being ousted from office for failing to protect national security after Hamas attacks."

A surprise attack launched by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7 left 1,400 dead, the majority of whom were civilians. They were killed in general on the first day of the attack, and more than 240 hostages were taken, according to the Israeli authorities.

Olmert warned, saying: "The priority must be to negotiate the end-game with the international community, including returning to talks on forming a Palestinian state, rather than turning back the clock toward full military supervision of Gaza."

Olmert added, describing Netanyahu: “Throughout his life, he falsely considered himself the master of security. He is the master of nonsense.”

He continued: "Every minute Netanyahu spends as prime minister, he poses a danger to Israel. I mean that seriously. I'm sure the Americans understand that he is in bad shape."

He added, "It is not in Israel's interest to supervise Gaza's security. It is in our interest to be able to defend ourselves in a different way than we did before the October 7 attack. But to control Gaza again? No."

The White House said yesterday, Tuesday, that Hamas will not be part of the equation in Gaza, explaining that Washington is holding discussions with Israel about what Gaza will look like after the end of the ongoing conflict there.

White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said that Israel's reoccupation of Gaza would not be right.

On Monday, Netanyahu announced that Israel would assume “comprehensive security responsibility” in the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war it is currently waging against Hamas.

Olmert also warned that the patience of Israel's Western allies was beginning to run out due to the failure of Netanyahu and his ministers to draw up a realistic plan to govern Gaza in the post-Hamas era.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced today that the death toll in the Strip due to the Israeli bombing since October 7 had risen to 10,569 Palestinians, including 4,324 children. It also confirmed that the number of infected people had risen to 26,475.

In its second month, the war between the Israeli army and the armed Palestinian factions in Gaza continues today, Wednesday, while there is no sign of a ceasefire or implementation of a temporary humanitarian truce, while the number of civilian casualties increases as a result of the Israeli bombing, and the situation in the Strip is getting worse, which has become disastrous. .