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The IDF's General Staff lost control over the units, especially reserve units, months ago. In Gaza, in the West Bank and in bases in Israel, soldiers record themselves destroying Palestinian property and civilian infrastructure / Amos Harel haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Blowing up homes without permission and spreading political messages identified with the far right. What is photographed and distributed is only the tip of the iceberg haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The vast majority of offenses are committed beyond the range of cameras, and in the vast majority of these cases, the army responds weakly if at all. Some of the incidents are serving ICJ prosecutors as proof of the allegations against Israel haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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IDF investigation finds that Israeli army forces fired at a UN vehicle in the Rafah area last Monday, leading to the death of an aid worker / @yanivkub haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The killed worker was identified as Waibhav Anil Kale, an Indian national who worked in the UN's Safety and Security Division. Another UN worker, a Jordanian national, was wounded in the incident haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The investigation revealed that they were driving on a road where travel was prohibited without prior coordination with the IDF, and Israeli forces claimed they were accompanied by an armed individual haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The deputy head of Israel's National Security Council, Yoram Hemo (who resigned from his position last week,) wrote in an official document presented to the war cabinet that Israel's strategic action pattern failed in the war, and cannot succeed haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Senior officials in the war cabinet who read the document said that Hemo claims that the war should be stopped haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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When Hemo presented his arguments, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi reportedly got angry and dismissed them. He took the document, and asked those present to treat it as if it did not exist haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Far-right activists in the West Bank assaulted a Palestinian truck driver, believing his truck, along with another, was carrying aid to Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Footage from the scene indicated that the activists stopped both trucks near the Givat Asaf settlement, unloaded their cargo, deflated their tires, and set them on fire haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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In one of the videos, the truck driver is seen rolling on the ground, wounded, while soldiers, including an officer, pass by. One of the far-right activists can be heard saying: "This is what happens to those who bring food to Hamas" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The U.S. is expected to impose sanctions on the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion because of its involvement in human rights violations in the West Bank haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Here is a Haaretz investigation by @yanivkub into the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, originally published in February 2022.
Lies, violence and far-right ideology: The West Bank militia formed inside the Israeli army haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"We very quickly realized that dissolving Netzah Yehuda would be a declaration of war for the settler leadership," a defense official told Haaretz haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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A bit of backbone emerges: Interior Minister Moshe Arbel wrote a scathing letter to PM Netanyahu due to the premier's decision to interfere in the ministry's authority over the entry of foreign workers into Israel haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Since October 7, Israel has experienced a severe shortage of foreign workers. as Palestinian workers were barred from entering the country, and thousands of others left haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Arbel has said he unequivocally supports allowing Palestinian workers back into Israel in coordination with the Shin Bet security service, alongside increasing the number of incoming foreign workers haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to defense sources, the cars were clearly marked as belonging to the organization, but the war room of the unit responsible for securing the route identified an armed man on the truck and suspected that he was a terrorist, sources said haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The truck reached the warehouse with the World Central Kitchen's three cars, with seven volunteers in them – two dual-national Palestinians (U.S. and Canada) and five citizens of Australia, the UK, and Poland haaretz.com/israel-news/20…