More than 100 former senior military officials in Israel are pushing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue a comprehensive peace deal with Palestine.

The open letter signed by 106 officials include the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), former chiefs of Israel's foreign intelligence agency Mossad and retired senior police officials, according to i24news.

The officials said that after seeing the progress and support of moderately political Egypt, they thought a political process would ensue after the most recent 50-day war between Israel and Palestine ended.

Countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia would be useful ties with the Arab world for Israel and would help bridge the gap with Palestine.

A recent talk for a cease-fire agreement that was supposed to take place in Egypt between all factions involved was postponed.

The announcement came after a militant drove a car rigged with explosives into a military checkpoint, killing 30 Egyptian police, and Egypt has since closed its border with the Gaza Strip.

Egypt was instrumental in encouraging the initial cease-fire agreement in August, bringing an end to the deadly battle which killed thousands of civilians. The death toll for Palestine garnered global support for peace, after more than 2,000 individuals lost their lives.

In comparison, Israel lost less than 100.

The alarming death toll of the battle was eclipsed by predictions for rebuilding the damaged areas of Gaza.

It will take an estimated 20 years and more than $6 billion to rebuild Gaza, according to a report by the United Nations and Red Cross.

A total of 17,000 housing units in Gaza were destroyed or severely damaged from the summer battle. This has aggravated a problem of housing, since Gaza has already been identified as having inadequate housing for its 1.8 million population.

The military petition in Israel was started by retired Major-General Amnon Reshef, who said he was disappointed to see an aggressive pursuit of occupying the West Bank of Israel rather than any political action after the ceasefire agreement.