#Barak Missile

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Spyder Air Defence System: Israel’s MOD, Rafael test latest version of Spyder System

Israel’s Spyder Air Defence System: Israel’s leading defence company Rafael and Israel’s ministry of defence (IMOD), and the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) have successfully tested advanced Spyder Air Defense System in its latest All-In-One Configuration, said the Israeli defence company. In a statement, Rafael Monday announced the successful completion of a test for its…

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#Barak Missile #David Sling #IMOD #Iron Dome #Israel #Pini Yungman Rafael #Rafael Advanced Defense Systems #Rafael Spyder Air Defence Missile System

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"Hamas has vowed to “repeat October 7 again and again”. Hamas is thus an existential threat to the State of Israel, and one that Israel must repel. This terrorist organization rules over the Gaza Strip, exercising military and governmental functions. Hamas seeks to immunize its military apparatus by placing it within and below civilian infrastructure, which is itself a war crime, and intentionally places its own population at risk by digging tunnels under their homes and hospitals. Hamas fires missiles indiscriminately at Israel, including from schools and other civilian installations in Gaza, in the full knowledge that many of them will fall inside Gaza causing death and injuries to innocent Palestinians. This is Hamas’s well-known modus operandi."

Paragraph taken from Judge Aharon Barak's separate opinion at the ICJ.

#ישראבלר #israel #gaza #icj #free gaza #from hamas that is

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

There was an independent terrorist attack in the Gush Etzion region today, 2 Palestinian terrorists fired at Israeli soldiers, didn't manage to injure anyone, and one of them was eliminated.

Barak Ayalon, a man in his 40's and his mother Mira, in her 70's, were murdered today, while the father, also in his 70's, was moderately injured due to Hezbollah shooting anti-tank missiles from Lebanon at a home in Kfar Yuval, a community in northern Israel.

This follows another incident that took place during the night, in the area of Har Dov (where I was stationed when I was doing my mandatory IDF service), 4 Hezbollah terrorists used the heavy rains, infiltrated Israel, fired at soldiers, injured 5 of them, and ended up being eliminated.

I think this is so important to understand that the IDF truly does its best not to harm civilians. Here's a compilation of moments when air strikes were aborted, when civilians were identified in the vicinity of the intended targets:

Today, the entire country of Israel is observing 100 days since Oct 7.

100 days since the start of this war that is costing so many lives every single day, and more than anything, 100 days since innocent civilians in Israel were attacked, abused, tortured and kidnapped to Gaza, where 136 continue to suffer in captivity. There is a 24 hour protest, many companies and organizations are striking today for 100 minutes, and in a Tel Aviv square that was re-named after the hostages, there is a model of a Hamas terror tunnel, that people can walk into, and stay in there for 100 seconds, to get an idea of how suffocating it is. When the model was opened, the families of the hostages visited it, and shared some of their thoughts on the walls.

On Oct 23, a Hamas rocket hit a kibbutz called Yad Mordechai, named after Mordechai Anilevich, the commander of Eyal, one of the two Jewish underground movements, which fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The kibbutz is home to a Holocaust museum, one of the first in the world, and Hamas' rocket hit the gallery that recreates the command bunker of Mordechai Anilevich (you might be able to recognize the red bricks used in most of the Warsaw Ghetto):

As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, IDK if I can explain how this image is chilling to the bones.

This is Nassrin Yossef.

She and her husband Yiad are Druze, and originally from northern Israel. They fell in love with the people of a community called Yated in the south, and move there. On Oct 7, despite a broken leg, Yiad joins the community's emergency squad (which stopped some of the terrorists). Nassrin stays with their kids, and faces the terrorists who get to their house, which happens to be the closest to the border fence. She speaks to the terrorists in Arabic, and starts "interrogating" them, getting information about how many have infiltrated Yated, and where they are. She finds out some are hiding in the greenhouse found very close to her home. She passes the info on to the security forces, who take out 20 terrorists. The phone of one of these men rang, and Nassrin replied, said she's helping to hide the terrorists, so it's okay to share any info with her. She found out from the man on the line that there's a breach in the fence they're gonna enter through, and she translated everything for the Israeli officer. She said the way the man on the phone ended the call was, "Allah willing, we'll occupy Israel by tonight." The next day, Nassrin found out that while her actions and her husband's saved many in their community, the terrorists murdered two of her friends at the community of Kerem Shalom, and a Jewish neighbor and friend named Ido. "He was like a brother to me, his family like my family." Nassrin says she broke at that point. Yiad drove them out, and she recounts that the road was full of burned and shot cars with bodies still inside. She also says that, as scary as it is, Yated is their home and they'll return to it as soon as they can. Heroes.

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Barak Ayalon, 45, and his mother Mira, 76, were killed in the Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile attack on Kfar Yuval in northern Israel. Barak's father, 74, is lightly hurt.

#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Terror #Iran

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Paragraph taken from Judge Aharon Barak's separate opinion at the ICJ.

"Hamas has vowed to “repeat October 7 again and again”. Hamas is thus an existential threat to the State of Israel, and one that Israel must repel. This terrorist organization rules over the Gaza Strip, exercising military and governmental functions. Hamas seeks to immunize its military apparatus by placing it within and below civilian infrastructure, which is itself a war crime, and intentionally places its own population at risk by digging tunnels under their homes and hospitals. Hamas fires missiles indiscriminately at Israel, including from schools and other civilian installations in Gaza, in the full knowledge that many of them will fall inside Gaza causing death and injuries to innocent Palestinians. This is Hamas’s well-known modus operandi."

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HEARTBREAKING: Cpl. Tamir Barak, 19, from Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu, has been identified as the warrior from the IDF’s combat engineering brigade who was murdered by Hamas in an anti-tank missile attack near the Gaza border yesterday. 

Tamir’s uncle, Benny Brooks, was killed during the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago in a battle for the Golan Heights. 

יהי זכרו ברוך 🕯️

#Israel #Gaza Massacre #BDE #🕯️ #IDF

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Azerbaijan’s armed forces conducted large scale air defense drills, the Azeri Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday, including live-firing of the Israeli made Barak-8 ER air defense system. According to the statement, the Barak-8 detected and destroyed a ballistic missile “launched by an imaginary enemy.” Israel has had a strategic alliance with Azerbaijan for the past two decades, selling the large Shi’ite-majority country weapons worth billions of dollars – and in return, Azerbaijan, per sources, supplies Israel with oil and access to Iran.[...]

Israel and Azerbaijan took their relationship up a level in 2011 with a huge $1.6 billion deal that included a battery of Barak missiles for intercepting aircraft and missiles, as well as Searcher and Heron drones from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). It was reported that near the end of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, a Barak battery shot down an Iskander ballistic missile launched by Armenia.

An investigation by Haaretz in March revealed that over the past seven years, 92 cargo flights flown by Azerbaijani Silk Way Airlines have landed at the Ovda airbase, the only airfield in Israel through which explosives may be flown into and out of the country. The investigation found the number of flights spiked during periods of fighting against Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh. Since March, there have been 11 more Azeri flights, including 5 in the past two weeks, totaling 103 flights in 7 years.

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L’attuale situazione è frutto del fallimento del progetto che prevedeva la cessione di territori da parte di Israele, tra 2000 e 2005, per ottenere in cambio la pace. Gaza fu uno di quelli. Ora quei territori sono il punto di partenza di attacchi agli israeliani. (...)

Il progetto “Territori in cambio di pace”, fu iniziato da da Ehud Barak, laburista, lasciando il Sud del Libano nel 2000. Lo fece in cambio della garanzia che nessuno avrebbe attaccato Israele. In realtà Hezbollah prese il controllo del confine e continuò a colpire.

Il ritiro da Gaza, nel 2005, aveva la stessa pretesa: lasciare quel territorio all’ANP ottenendo in cambio la pace. Gli abitanti di Gaza ebbero accesso alle aree che erano state degli israeliani evacuati, diedero fuoco alle sinagoghe e ad infrastrutture varie (del valore di circa 10 milioni di dollari), fra cui serre per coltivazioni.

Nel 2007 vi fu il “colpo di Stato” di Hamas che prese il controllo di Gaza impiccando e fucilando tantissimi palestinesi oppositori. Hamas in questi anni ha ucciso più palestinesi di quanti ne abbiano mai uccisi gli israeliani. Non solo, utilizza la popolazione di Gaza come scudo umano: i soldati sparano dai palazzi e impediscono ai civili di evacuarli.

Hamas è sopravvissuta sinora mostrando al mondo le immagini dei civili uccisi (anche quelli usati come scudo umano) dal fuoco israeliano, producendo una pressione sull’opinione pubblica mondiale e una valanga di aiuti, che gestisce per armarsi.

Il 1º marzo 2008 dopo il lancio di razzi da Gaza, l'esercito di Israele invase direttamente l'area con forze blindate ed aeree. Hamas accettò di porre fine al lancio dei razzi in cambio di un alleggerimento del blocco. Di nuovo, il 27 dicembre 2008 gli israeliani lanciarono l'operazione Piombo fuso per fermare i nuovi lanci di razzi di Hamas. I militanti posizionavano tali rampe in prossimità di scuole, abitazioni civili, ospedali, sedi televisive. Entrambe le operazioni furono fermate. Successivamente i lanci di razzi continuarono ma Israele faceva totale affidamento sul sistema missilistico anti missile Iron Dome, con successo. Fino alla crisi di ottobre 2023.

Ricostruzione storica per quelli che bisogna trattare, mediare, ragionare, di Gianandrea Gaiani, direttore di Analisi Difesa su https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/israele-a-gaza-rischio-vietnam-netanyahu-vuole-la-striscia-e-il-sud-libano-liran-stara-fermo/2603927/

L'unico Hamas buono è l'Hamas morto.

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by Caroline Glick

Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains, rather than brawn, would rule the roost.

The primary author of the “small and smart IDF” doctrine was Ehud Barak, who served as Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces when the Berlin Wall crumbled. In later years, the slogan was finessed.

A generation of IDF Chiefs of General Staff organized around the vision of a “small, technological and lethal army.”

As Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, (retired) who served as the IDF ombudsman for ten years, has documented, operating under the spell of Barak’s doctrine, the IDF shut down multiple reserve divisions. It cut its artillery forces by 50%. Armored brigades were shut down. The reserve force was reduced by 80% between 2003 and 2017. The non-commissioned officer corps was gutted. The bulk of the IDF budget and nearly all the U.S. military aid were diverted to the Air Force—the strategic arm of the “small, technological and lethal” IDF.

The doctrine was repeatedly exposed as a farce. But to no avail. The air force didn’t defeat the Palestinian terror factories in Judea and Samaria in 2002. The ground forces did. The air force never had a response to missiles from Hezbollah to the north and Hamas to the south. Without regional brigades defending the borders, Israel’s “peacetime” borders with Jordan on the east and Egypt at its west became highways for weapons smugglers.

Brick’s warnings fell on deaf ears until the “small, smart army” fallacy was obliterated by Hamas invaders on Oct. 7. Israel’s multi-billion shekel “smart fence” was felled by bulldozers. Its automatic response system was obliterated by RPGs. Hundreds of soldiers manning these worthless technological wonders were slaughtered or kidnapped. Everything failed.

A microcosm of all things oppressive

This brings us to the second underlying assumption that guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. This assumption, also championed by Barak, asserted that Israel’s most important strategic asset was the United States.

Leaving aside the obvious fact that a strategy of dependence on an outside actor effectively gutted Israel’s national independence, on the surface, Barak’s dependence concept seemed reasonable.

The Americans rescued Israel with its weapons airlift in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In 1992, the United States was the sole global superpower. Because Israel was seen as Washington’s “mini-me,” countries worldwide lined up to be friends with Israel, which they perceived as the gateway to Washington. The vast majority of Americans supported Israel. U.S. military aid to Israel enjoyed wide bipartisan support.

Under the spell of Barak’s U.S. dependence doctrine, Israel gutted its domestic military production capabilities. Nearly everything that it had produced domestically—from uniforms to rifles to bullets, to artillery and tank shells—was shut down. Thousands of military industry workers lost their jobs. Knowledge was lost. The contracts moved to the United States. Even projects developed jointly by Israeli engineers financed by America were transferred to the United States for production. So it happened that Israel’s Iron Dome missiles are solely produced in the United States.

#yitzhak brick #israel #united states #idf #ehud barak

[omgellendean]

A long thread by "Propaganda and Co" about the events on October 7. Some well known by now, some new to me.

A. Golan: The terrorists shot them? Y. Porat: No, they were killed by the crossfire. Understand there was very, very heavy crossfire. A. Golan: So our forces may have shot them? Y. Porat: Undoubtedly. Source: Kan, an Israeli state broadcaster

Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says

"He fended off terrorists who attacked his house but was hit by soldiers' fire in a tragic incident." Ran Posloshani, a resident of Nahal Oz (haaretz)

"Niv Ayos was killed by IDF fire while driving on Route 4 on his way to one of the army bases." "On my child's body, in the autopsy, there were 100 bullets." (maariv)

Apache pilots couldn't differentiate Israelis from Palestinians "The pilots realized that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian" "Some of them began to spray the terrorists with the cannons on their own, without authorization from superiors." "These are hundreds of 30 mm cannon shells (the effect of a spray grenade for each shell) as well as the Hellfire missiles." (ynet)

"I choose such targets that I tell myself that the chance that I will shoot at abductees here as well is low. To tell you 100%, it's not." Lt Col. A., an IDF Apache helicopter pilot (mako)

"An investigation into the incident also revealed that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived at the scene from the Ramat David base fired at the terrorists and apparently also hit some of the revelers who were there." (haaretz)

"At some point the helicopter shot at the terrorists, the driver and the others. There was screaming in the tuk-tuk. All the terrorists were dead and we were alive, except for one for one of the women with us."(october7)

IDF Brig Gen Avi Rosenfeld ordered an attack on his own base on Oct 7 "The division was compelled to request an aerial strike against the base itself in order to repulse the terrorists." (haaretz mondoweiss)

“The commanders in the field made difficult decisions – including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages." (haaretz )

"I arrived in Be’eri to see Brig Gen Barak Hiram and the first thing he asks me is to fire a shell into a house [where Hamas were sheltering]." Lt Col Salman Habaka, an Israeli tank commander. He says, "The first question that comes to your mind is – are there hostages there? We did all the preliminary checks before we decided to fire a shell into a house." (theguardian)

"They're actually bodies that were so badly burnt, we thought they were ours. In the end, apparently, they were Hamas terrorists." Mark Regev, Israeli ambassador to UK.

In an Oct 7 meeting with high ranking officials, “Hit Hamas brutally and not take the matter of the captives into significant consideration.” Bezalel Smotrich, Israel Finance Minister (theguardian)

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IAI will showcase Barak missiles at Singapore’s IMDEX Asia Naval defence exhibition

IAI will showcase Barak missiles at Singapore’s IMDEX Asia Naval defence exhibition #India #Israel #Singapore #defence #defense #defencenews #military #army #airforce #navy #missiles #barakmissile #IMDEX @Israel_MOD @Israel_MOF @IsraelMFA @IDF @ILAerospaceIAI @IAFsite @IsraelinIndia @NaorGilon

IAI at IMDEX Asia Naval and Maritime Defence Exhibition: Israel’s state owned defence and aerospace company – Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) – will showcase its Barak missiles and other weapon systems at the IMDEX naval and maritime defense exhibition taking place in Singapore from May 3-5. IAI will showcase a variety of its state-of-the-art naval and maritime products, including the Barak MX,…

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[cauli-flawa]

This article is somewhat outdated. It was published April 5, 2024

It's from BBC, published by Merlyn Thomas and Jake Horton. Additional reporting is brought by Rob England, Maryam Ahmed, Jamie Ryan and Emma Pengelly.

On Hamas' casualties:

Prior to October 7, IDF commanders reported that 30,000 Hamas fighters were in Gaza

The IDF has killed a total of 13,000 Hamas soldiers since the start of the war, but have not explained how those numbers were found.

In January, Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an explosion in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. On March 26, the IDF killed deputy commander Marwan Issa.

The IDF leaks the names of people claimed to be senior Hamas leaders they killed. However the list ontained some duplicated names and even the names of civilians.

On that list was the freelance journalist Mustafa Thuraya, killed when an Israeli missile hit his car. Thuruya was travelling with two other journalists - Hamza al-Dadouh and Hazem Rajab. Rajab survived with severe injuries.

"'The IDF hasn't been able to get to the top brass of the Hamas leadership,' says Mairav Zonszein, a senior analyst on Israeli-Palestinian affairs at the International Crisis Group. 'Both on a symbolic level of getting to the main leaders, and also on the level of replacing Hamas as the holder of the territory, that's something that it hasn't been able to achieve,' Ms Zonszein says."

On the hostages:

Hamas took 253 people hostage on October 7. 109 were released for exchange deals and 3 were rescued by Israel. The age range of the remaining hostages ranged from 18-85.

The youngest hostages, Ariel (4 years) and Kfir (9 months) were reported dead.

Israel estimated at least 34 of the remaining 129 hostages were dead. They recovered 12 of the bodies, among them were the 3 hostages that the IDF killed in one of their operations.

Hamas claimed that the death toll was much higher due to Israeli airstrikes. This claim has not be verified.

On the tunnels:

Hamas claimed their tunnel network is 500 km (311 miles) long. This claim has not been verified.

When asked about the amount and proportion of tunnels destroyed, Israel replied that they "destroyed a great deal of the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza".

In November, the IDF released video footage of a tunnel network beneath the al-Shifa hospital, claimed to be a command center.

Of all the IDF's SMS messages from October 7 to March 26, 198 mentioned discovering a tunnel network and 141 reported destroying it.

36 of the messages mentioned striking a total of 400 tunnel shafts (places where the tunnel meets open ground). Destroying a shaft does little to the tunnel network itself.

The scale and extent of the missions could not be reported because the IDF did not detail the locations or specifics of the networks.

Daphne Richemond-Barak said, "given the scale and depth of Hamas's tunnel network, it is impossible to fully eliminate all of its underground military structure."

Over 1.7 million Gazans have been displaced, and more than 33,000 have been killed. 56% of Gaza's infrastructure has been reduced to rubble.

Israel warned Gazans to evacuate further and further south, where they continued to bomb them in the "safe zones."

#palestine

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Biden Urges Israel to Stand Down After Iran's Attack

The United States is urging Israel not to retaliate against Iran after the terrorist-backed country launched dozens of drones on Saturday. 

President Joe Biden made it clear that the U.S. would not join any Israeli offenses against Iran. However, he did praise the nation’s success in intercepting about 300 missiles and drones launched by Tehran. 

“Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks--sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel," Biden said. “While we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people.”

Top Iranian generals said that the country “achieved its goals” despite the U.S. and its “partners” interfering with the drones. 

This is the first time there has been an attack inside of Israel by Iran. It is unclear whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will listen to Biden and not retaliate which would escalate the situation. 

The Israel Defense Forces said the country is “prepared and ready” with defensive actions. However, according to an  Israeli news website, Biden will not support Israel if it chooses to retaliate. 

US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Netanyahu in their phone call tonight that the US will not support an Israeli attack on Iran and will not take part in it, a senior White House official said this morning (Sunday).  “You won a victory today. Be content with this victory,” Biden told Netanyahu, according to a senior White House official.  The official in the White House said that when Biden told Netanyahu that the US opposes an Israeli attack on Iran and that it would not take part in such a move, Netanyahu said he understood that. Via Barak Ravid of Wall.

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The IDF spokesman allowed publication that 21 reserve soldiers were killed yesterday in an incident in the center of the Gaza Strip. An anti-tank missile fired by Hamas terrorists activated explosives that the soldiers used in the Alma'azi area in the center of the Gaza Strip to blow up buildings. As a result, buildings where the soldiers were staying collapsed. So far, the names of ten of the fallen soldiers have been published. The families of all the soldiers have been updated. In the next few hours, the names of 11 more will be published. The names that have been cleared for publication are: Major General (res.) Matan Lazar, 32 years old, from Haifa, a fighter in Battalion 6261, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip. Major (ret.) Hadar Kapeluk, 23 years old, from Mevo Beitar, class commander in Battalion 8208, Brigade 261, was killed in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip. Sergeant-Major (res.) Sergey Gontmaher, 37 years old, from Ramat Gan, a fighter in Battalion 8208, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip. Major (res.) Elkana Yehuda Sfez, 25 years old, from Kiryat Arba, a fighter in Battalion 8208, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip. Maj. (res.) Yoval Lopez, 27 years old, from Alon Shavut, a fighter in Battalion 9206, Brigade 205, was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. Major (res.) Yoav Levi, 29 years old, from Yehud-Monoson, a fighter in Battalion 8208, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip. Maj. (res.) Nicholas Berger, 22 years old, from Jerusalem, a fighter in Battalion 8208, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. Major (ret.) Cydrick Garin, 23 years old, from Tel Aviv-Yafo, a fighter in the 8208th Battalion, 261st Brigade, was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. Major General (res.) Rafael Elias Mosheyoff, 33 years old, from Pardes Hana-Karkur, a fighter in Battalion 6261, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. Major General (res.) Barak Haim Ben Valid, 33 years old, from Rishon Lezion, class commander in Battalion 6261, Brigade 261, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.  May their memories be a blessing 💔

#Israel #October7 #Hamas Massacre #Operation Iron Sword #IDF #BDE

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🔴 Tsahal : l’attaque iranienne a déjà commencé, des centaines de drones volent vers Israël

À 22h45, Nir Dvori, correspondant de guerre de Hadashot 12, et Ynet ont rapporté de sources américaines que l’attaque iranienne contre Israël avait déjà commencé : des dizaines de drones avaient quitté l’Iran.  Une heure plus tard, des informations ont indiqué que des missiles de croisière avaient également été lancés vers Israël. Le correspondant de Walla, Barak Ravid, rapporte de source…

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Paragraph taken from Judge Aharon Barak's separate opinion at the ICJ:

"Hamas has vowed to “repeat October 7 again and again”. Hamas is thus an existential threat to the State of Israel, and one that Israel must repel. This terrorist organization rules over the Gaza Strip, exercising military and governmental functions. Hamas seeks to immunize its military apparatus by placing it within and below civilian infrastructure, which is itself a war crime, and intentionally places its own population at risk by digging tunnels under their homes and hospitals. Hamas fires missiles indiscriminately at Israel, including from schools and other civilian installations in Gaza, in the full knowledge that many of them will fall inside Gaza causing death and injuries to innocent Palestinians. This is Hamas’s well-known modus operandi."