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Rockets found in Gaza home, able to reach Tel Aviv
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Staff sgt. Sufian Dagash from the Engineering Corps was killed in Gaza on Tuesday two others were seriously hurt in the incident.
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Forces in Gaza found a pile of rockets with a 20 kilometer (12.5 miles) range, that are able to reach Tel Aviv, in an innocuous looking family home. the IDF said another sophisticated weapon was found there but did not reveal what it was.
Incoming Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that he will make the release of hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza, a top priority. The organization representing the families of the hostages said they were pleased at the statement made by Katz.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant dismissed on Tuesday reports that Israel was scaling back its offensive in the Gaza Strip.
"There is no more justified mission than what we are doing right now. Israel was attacked brutally and cruelly to deter us from living here,” Gallant told 646th Brigade reservists following a situational assessment.
“Victory is doubly necessary to exact a price and secure the safety of Gaza border residents. More importantly, if you don’t decisively conclude an event with 1,500 casualties and captives, you can’t live in the Middle East because tomorrow another aggressor will emerge. Therefore, we are determined to achieve our goal."
A journalist for Lebanese network Al-Manar reported on Tuesday that Israeli artillery has been pounding the southern Lebanon villages of Alma a-Sha'ab, a-Dahira and Ein a-Zarqa in the Tir Harfa area, as well as in the a-Naqura area.
The IDF on Tuesday confirmed that Israel carried out strikes against military targets in Syria overnight, after missile fire from Syrian territory on the Golan Heights on Monday. Earlier, the Syrian Sana news agency reported that Israel attacked targets in and around the capital Damascus. Sana said that the strike from the air occurred at 4.35 a.m. local time and was said to cause damage but no injuries.
Turkish authorities said on Tuesday that they had arrested 33 people who were suspected of links to the Mossad. The state prosecutor said arrest warrants were issued for 46 individuals allegedly linked to Mossad activity.
The arrests were conducted over 8 Turkish provinces while efforts to locate and detain 13 others were still underway.
Officials in Turkey claimed that Israeli intelligence was behind kidnapping attempts and intelligence gathering on, foreign nationals and that the base of operation for those efforts was Istanbul. The officials linked their operation to a report last week, in the Wall Street Journal, claiming that Israel was planning to assassinate senior members of Hamas living abroad.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
IDF troops killed four armed terrorists early on Tuesday during a raid on the West Bank village of Azzoun near Qalqilya, the IDF said. The forces encountered gunfire and explosive devices hurled at them, identified a building where the terror squad was hiding and engaged in a fight killing the four. One of the reserve force was moderately injured.
An explosion that killed 2 and wounded others in a New Year's event in Rochester, New York was being investigated as a terror attack, ABC News reported early on Tuesday. A car carrying gas canisters crashed into a vehicle causing the blast near a concert to an audience of one thousand.
The Supreme Court on Monday evening ruled to annul an amendment to a Basic Law that restricts its oversight of the government which was passed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government last July.
The ruling reinstates the so-called reasonableness clause which grants the court oversight of government decisions. This marks the first time the court has ruled on one of Israel's quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.
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Supreme Court; Prime Minister Netanyahu and Justice Minister Levin
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The majority opinion, passing by a narrow margin of 8 to 7, affirmed that the Basic Law annulling the clause "exceeds the Knesset's authority and therefore must be reversed."
According to recently retired Chief Justice Esther Hayut, "The Knesset's phrasing of the annulment is radical and extraordinary. It refers to the reasonableness clause's full measure, thereby preventing judicial review even in extreme and unreasonable governmental decisions."
The majority judges are: Former Chief Justice Esther Hayut, Justice Yitzhak Amit, Acting Chief Justice Uzi Fogelman, Justice Dafna Barak-Erez, retired Justice Anat Baron, Justice Khaled Kabub, Justice Ruth Ronen and Justice Ofer Grosskopf.
Invoking its authority to act, the majority opinion said, "Under extreme circumstances, the Supreme Court is authorized, under its mandate as the highest judicial authority in the land, to announce the annulment of a Basic Law when the Knesset exceeds its legislative authority."
Justices Noam Sohlberg and David Mintz affirmed that "this court has the authority to exact judicial review upon basic laws and intervene in extraordinary cases where the Knesset ventures outside its mandate."
Judge Yosef Elron, who was in the minority, wrote that "there is a certain window that allows for judicial review upon Basic Laws only in the most extreme of cases and only as a last resort. However, future Supreme Court cases will truly determine if the reasonableness clause has been completely annulled, or whether its remnants live within the framework of a reduced clause. This is a point where the executive branch has failed to articulate a consistent position."
First published: 07:45, 01.02.24