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Massive Protests 22nd Week Against Judicial Reform, 3 June 2023

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Israel sued for 'genocide' in The Hague, 29 Dec

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South Africa also asked the ICJ to "indicate provisional measures" in order to "protect against further, severe and irreparable harm" to Palestinians under the Genocide Convention. The ICJ also published the 84-page document that lists these measures in detail, first of which is for Israel to "immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza."
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timesofisrael | In historic ruling, High Court strikes down key judicial overhaul legislation, 1 Jan 2024

The court split almost down middle over the highly contentious legislation, the only law from the government's polarizing judicial overhaul package to have been passed, with eight justices ruling to strike down the law and seven to uphold it.

But fully 13 out of the full 15-justice panel that heard the case wrote in their opinions that the court did have the authority to review Basic Laws. And of the five justices who asserted this right but declined to strike down the reasonableness law, three expressed deep concern over the legislation and wrote that it should be interpreted in a narrow manner to preserve aspects of the reasonableness standard.

In what is perhaps the most significant outcome of the decision, the court fully actualized in legal precedent the argument made in previous rulings by former Supreme Court justice Esther Hayut that it does have, in limited circumstances, the right to annul Basic Laws if they undermine the key characteristics of the State of Israel as a Jewish and a democratic country.
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BREAKING:

⚡ 🇮🇱 Yedioth Ahronoth:

"Nova Concert victims sue Israel"

42 victims of the Oct. 7 Nova concert have filed a civil lawsuit against the IDF, police, and Israel's internal security service.

Lawsuit alleges negligence and a failure to act on warnings of a potential... pic.twitter.com/lndWsfLAgL

— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) January 1, 2024

timesofisrael | 42 survivors of the Nova rave massacre sue defense establishment for negligence, 1 Jan

In the first civil suit of its kind, a group of injured survivors of the Supernova rave massacre on Monday sued Israel's security forces for damages over their alleged negligence leading up to the October 7 Hamas onslaught, claiming hat the tragedy could have largely been averted.

The 42 plaintiffs filed the claim for NIS 200 million ($56 million) at the Tel Aviv District Court against the Shin Bet security service, the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, and the Defense Ministry, alleging multiple instances in which they failed in their duties.

"A single phone call by IDF officials to the commander responsible for the party to disperse it immediately in view of the expected danger would have saved lives and prevented the physical and mental injuries of hundreds of partygoers, including the plaintiffs," the lawsuit said. "The negligence and the gross oversight is beyond belief."
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ChatGPT | Israel begins ["]partial drawdown["] of troops from Gaza, 1 Jan 2024 troop rotation, actually

The Israeli military has started withdrawing units from Gaza, indicating that a new phase of the war has begun, though officials said the conflict is far from over.

"Some of the reservists will return to their families and employment this week," an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said.
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rumble.com, RT News - January 02 2024, "Deadly Failure" @00:11:57

Well, RT has spoken with several former, high-ranking Israeli officers who say the country's intelligence and leadership completely failed to prepare for the Hamas attack that killed more than a thousand people on October seventh. Our middle-east correspondent Maria Finoshina reports ...

comment: This is the same Maria Finoshina who during the entire month of October reported for Israel's defense establishment authorized sites of "atrocity" committed by Hamas, Herzog's kibbutz tours, and unexpected.lolwut IDF confrontations with RT Palestinian reporters in northern Gaza—while in the newsroom, the anchors' sympathy for Isreali retribution steadily disintegrated as Palestinian body-count rose. This morning's segment attempted to roll up RT's bureau dual-mission running interference for the Kremlin's ambivalent ME posture and MSM "defense breach" reportage into a mawkish "package"—file footage, B-roll cutaways, and a string of pre-recorded "beat check" clips featuring Amir Avivi (IDF-NGO), Rami Gold (MOS), Herzi Helvi (IDF), Amit Assa (Shin Bet col., ret'd), Netanyahu (TOI overlay quote)—of unrequited justice for Israel's innocents. Conspicuously missing from this narration is the present tense, not least whispers of Joe Blinken's hypothetical "Iron Sword" deadline. "All questions on how this tragic failure happened," ironically concludes Finoshina, "will be asked after the end of the war that is now unfolding behind this wall. The fears are that the fighting will last for too long to remember all those questions. People want the answers now." More likely, the message from Moscow is, you've made your bed. Now, lie on it.
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