Ehud Olmert, a former Israeli PM and a fierce critic of Netanyahu, has warned that the current Israeli leader could jeopardise the country’s longstanding peace treaty with Egypt if he expands military operations into Rafah, Al Jazeera reports.

Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast, Olmert said Netanyahu and his allies in the war cabinet have no interest in stopping the war and even want to go further by inflaming tensions in the occupied West Bank.

Netanyahu and his cohort want “Armageddon that will make it possible to expel many of the Palestinians in the West Bank”, said Olmert.

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