The decision came in response to a request from Itzik Bunzel, whose son Amit Buntzel was killed in action in Gaza, as well as the Im Tirtzu NGO.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has banned Moshe Ya’alon, who served both as defense minister and IDF chief of staff, from participating in events on Israeli military bases at the request of a bereaved father, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday.
Katz’s decision came in response to a request from Itzik Bunzel, whose son IDF Sgt. Amit Buntzel was killed in action in the central Gaza Strip on Dec. 6, as well as Israel’s Im Tirtzu Zionist grassroots organization.
In their missive to Katz, Bunzel and Im Tirtzu wrote that Ya’alon is “the person who claimed that IDF soldiers are carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza, defined the war as a ‘war of deception’ and even hinted that he ‘hopes Israel will not send soldiers to murder babies in the Gaza Strip.'”