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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
Netanyahu government again refused to form an inquiry commission to ascertain what happened on the day that triggered the War in the Middle East: “Do not trust” in the Supreme Court of Israel and “not time to investigate.”
Israeli opposition accused the government of “buryThe formation of an inquiry committee on the events of, the deadliest day in the history of the State of Israel, in which Hamas attacked Israelite territory, triggering the long war that still lasts.
The executive led by Benjamin Netanyahu returned this weekend to refuse access to such a request.
“The government did yesterday (Sunday) everything to bury this commission, They do not want us to know that the prime minister saw the recommendations of secret services and did not give them importance, do not want us to remember that their policy was to reinforce Hamas”The opposition leader, Yaïr Lapid, said in an intervention in the Knesset.
The case was presented to the Supreme Court by family and hostages, as well as by non-governmental organizations (NGO), which required the creation of a National October 7th Commission and, on December 11, 2024, That judicial instance ordered the Israeli government to meet within 60 days to discuss the convenience of creating such a commission.
“It’s no time to investigate,” says finance minister
The government met on Sunday to look at this issue and did not decide anything.
This Monday, at a press conference, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (far right) said he was “in favor of the investigation” on October 7, 2023, but not wanting to assign any responsibility related to this task to Supreme Court of Israel, because it “has no confidence” in it. He added that “in the middle of a war, It’s not time to investigate ”.
Under Israeli law, if the government decides to create a state inquiry commission, it must inform the president of the Supreme Court, which will then appoint the respective members.
It is recalled that the creation of this committee was
The former defense minister called on the need to implement a “deep investigation” through a national commission to identify those responsible for security violations that allowed Hamas’s multiple and lethal attack on Israeli soil, a request refused by Netanyahu.
Since the 1960s, about 15 commissions of this type have been created in Israel, Namely after the initial defeat in the 1973 Israelo-Arab war, Israel’s responsibility at the Palestinian massacre for Christian militias in Sabra and Shatila, Lebanon, in 1982, and the 1995 murder of the then Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin.
On January 22, a bill to form a National Commission of Inquiry on October 7 was rejected by deputies of the right-wing and far-right government coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
However, almost 50 thousand dead
The attack of unprecedented proportions carried out by Hamas in Israelite territory on October 7, 2023, which caused about 1,200 dead, most civil, and 251 hostagesmade Israel hours later a war in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian Islamite movement has been found since 2007 in power to “eradicate”.
Since then, voices have been raised by accusing the Israeli authorities of having prior knowledge of the preparation of the attack and having done nothing to prevent it, because it would give them the perfect pretext to invade and destroy the Gaza Strip and move to a place yet More remote the hypothesis of peaceful coexistence side by side of two states, Israelite and Palestinian, a solution defended by much of the international community to the historic Israelo-Palestinian conflict.
The War in the Gaza Strip made, until January 19 -a date of entry into force of a ceasefire agreement -at least 48,208 Dead (About 2% of the population), including nearly 18,000 children, and nearly 111,000 injured, plus about 11,000 missing, mostly civilians, buried in the rubble, and a few more thousands who died of disease and infections, according to With updated numbers from local authorities, which the UN considers reliable.
Over more than a year of war, about 90% of the 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza became obliged to movemany of them several times, finding themselves at crowded camps along the coast, virtually without access to first-need goods, such as drinking water and health care.
The UN declared the overpowered and poor Palestinian enclave dipped in a severe humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a “catastrophic hunger”making “the highest number of victims ever recorded” by the organization in food security studies in the world.
At the end of 2024, a special UN commission accused Israel of genocide In the Gaza range and to be using hunger as a weapon of war – an accusation soon refuted by the Israeli government, but without presenting any arguments.
