Rockets interrupt Knesset, Hezbollah attacks continue
Shin Bet chief takes responsibility for intel failure • IDF kills more top Hamas men • No ground invasion yet
hamas continued firing rockets towards the center of the country and the Gaza border areas on monday, but also towards jerusalem, leading to a Knesset evacuation to the institution’s large bomb shelter. one woman was moderately injured from shards near holon, as the number of Israeli casualties stood at 1,300.
hezbollah also continued firing on the north, including rockets, anti-tank fire, and again aiming and firing at the IdF’s sensors and radar equipment in an effort to blind the military.
a press conference given by IdF chief spokesman brig.Gen. daniel hagari to reporters on monday night was delayed by several minutes, with the setup team running off of the live running feed when a siren went off due to hamas rocket fire.
despite that, a senior IdF official said that hamas’s rocket-firing capabilities were reduced to approximately 100 per day, whereas expectations were that it could fire 10 times more than that daily.
however, another IdF official said on sunday that hamas might be holding back large amounts of its rocket arsenal purposely in order to maintain the ability to continue firing on Israel over an extended conflict, as it did over the 50 days of its operation in 2014.
the IdF killed a number of senior hamas officials, including the terror group’s head of intelligence in Khan younis. It also put out a variety of new vignettes of artillery, tank, and other commanders, eliminating a range of hamas officials and rank-and-file terrorists in recent operations.
Likewise, a series of unclear statements by the IdF spokesman led to speculation about whether availability of water was being used as an additional “stick” to press palestinian civilians to follow IdF warnings given last week to evacuate to southern Gaza.
asked whether the imminent arrival of us president joe biden to Israel will slow down the IdF’s preparation for war, hagari said that only IdF national security considerations would impact the military’s pace.
at the same time, he said that biden’s arrival, mid-war, would send an unmistakable message to hezbollah and Iran to stay out of the fighting and not act rashly.
regardless of any global pressure regarding the strength of the impending invasion, the IdF is acting “in a responsible and balanced way,” hagari said.
QuestIons have piled up about a delay to the invasion since the IdF issued a general evacuation order for all of
one of you will continue to do your jobs with faith, dedication, and professionalism under the leadership of Deputy Chief Justice Uzi Vogelman,” she wrote.
Levin spoke with Hayut on Monday, congratulated her on her retirement, and thanked her for her years of service on the Supreme Court. He also wished her luck in all her future endeavors.
Hayut was appointed to the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court in 1990. Within six years, she was appointed an acting judge on the Tel Aviv District Court and became a judge the following year.
Six years later, she became an acting justice on the Supreme Court, and the following year a justice. In 2017, she was promoted to president of the Supreme