International pressure on Israel to allow significantly more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip is growing. After German Chancellor Friedrich Merz accused the Israeli government of violating international humanitarian law on Monday, Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also took his successor Benjamin Netanyahu to task more harshly than ever before: „Israel is committing war crimes,“ he wrote in a guest article for the Tel Aviv-based Haaretz on Tuesday. „The recent operations in Gaza have nothing to do with legitimate war aims.“