Haaretz newspaper said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to withdraw the powers to appoint members of the committee investigating the October 7 attack from the President of the Supreme Court.
The newspaper added that Netanyahu does not want a judge to head the investigation committee into the attack, in reference to the “flood of Al-Aqsa.”
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted National Security Council Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi as saying – during a meeting he held a few days ago with political figures in the Likud Party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – that “the mission of the government investigation committee into the events of October 7 is to eliminate the government.” Right-wingers, don’t be fooled.”
While an official in Netanyahu’s office – which the newspaper did not name – said, “Netanyahu does not trust the judges, fears that they will retaliate against him because of legal reform, and is concerned about the growing calls within Likud to form a government investigation committee.”
On April 26, Minister of the Israeli War Council Benny Gantz submitted a proposal to the Israeli government to form an official investigation committee regarding the events of October 7.
Netanyahu is being subjected to severe criticism in Israeli circles due to the failure to predict in advance the attack on the settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip about 8 months ago, and the way he dealt with the issue of Israeli detainees in Gaza.
On October 7, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions launched an attack on military points and settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip, during which about 1,200 Israelis were killed, about 5,431 were injured, and the movement captured at least 239, exchanging dozens of them with Israel during a temporary truce. .
Since then, the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has left more than 118,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
Israel continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution demanding that it stop the fighting immediately, and orders from the International Court of Justice demanding that it stop its attack on the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and take immediate measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Source : Israeli press + Anatolia Agency