The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that it has permanently stopped calling up a military intelligence officer for reserve duty. The officer announced yesterday that he was refusing to serve in protest against Israeli government policy and its decision to resume the war on Gaza.

Officer Michael Mayer wrote on the X platform yesterday that "the thing that will most help defend the people is to refuse to participate in combat in the service of a group of stinking traitors, in a manner that is completely contrary to the interests of the people of Israel."

After the army announced it would no longer call him up for reserve duty, Meyer wrote today that he "stands by every word I wrote in this context, in this tweet and others, and this is what I said in the conversation about my dismissal as well."

He added, "The easiest thing for people like me is to continue to comply. I could have continued to serve, and I could have easily evaded it with various excuses.

My choice to express my position publicly is a difficult one, with significant personal, social, and psychological consequences, but it is the right choice.”

Mayer continued, "There must be red lines for anyone. As far as I'm concerned, they were crossed a while ago. I will not participate in an operation driven by subjective motives that entails abandoning the kidnapped to die, sending soldiers to kill and be killed for no reason, and continuing the multifaceted deterioration of the State of Israel."

All of this is under the rule of a regime that has long lost legitimacy and is only meant to maintain its power.”

Yesterday, the Israeli army dismissed air force navigator Alon Gur from reserve service after he announced his refusal to serve in protest against the Israeli government's decision to resume the war on Gaza.

"Since this morning, I have been unable to do anything," Gore wrote on the X platform. "I met with the squadron commander and told him: Even here. The line has been crossed at the point where the government has once again deliberately abandoned its citizens in broad daylight, at the point where reckless and cold political considerations have taken precedence over all other considerations, at the point where human life has lost its value, and at the point where the government is targeting the guardians of its own threshold."