Yoav Gallant
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Born | 8 November 1958 |
Perpetrator of | 2023-2025 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza |
Yoav Gallant is an Israeli politician and retired military general. A member of the Knesset for Likud, he was Minister of Defence since 2022.
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Career
Yoav Gallant is a former commander of the Southern Command in the Israel Defence Forces. In January 2015, he entered politics, joining the new Kulanu party.
After being elected to the Knesset, he was appointed Minister of Construction. At the end of 2018, he joined Likud. Gallant also previously held the posts of Minister of Aliyah and Integration and Minister of Education.[1]
Hannibal directive
During an interview on 7 February, 2025, Gallant admitted to ordering the implementation the Hannibal Directive, the protocol that involves killing captives along with their captors, and which was the cause of most deaths on October 7. When asked, Gallant responded: "I think that, tactically, in some places, it was given, and in other places, it was not given, and that is a problem". Gallant made the comments in his first interview since being dismissed as defense minister in November 2024. He also said that the ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza was nearly identical to an earlier proposal that Hamas was willing to agree to in April. [2]
ICC arrest warrant
On 20 May 2024, an arrest warrant for Yoav Gallant, as well as for other Israeli and Palestinian leaders, was requested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan as part of the ICC investigation in Palestine, on several counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Israel-Hamas war.[3]
An event carried out
Event | Location | Description |
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2023-2025 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza | Gaza | After October 7, Israel invaded Gaza with widespread international support. The IDF went on a widely reported revenge killing spree. Even by Israel's own account, they killed 19,500 Palestinian civilians after half a year of bombing hospitals, schools and civilian towers, utilising numerous condemned tactics. |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:ICC issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant | Statement | 21 November 2024 | Pre-Trial Chamber I of the ICC | The ICC found reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant each bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts; and for the war crime of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population. |
Document:ICC prosecutor says world leaders 'threatened' him over Israel arrest warrants | Article | 5 September 2024 | News Desk | “Target Israel, and we will target you,” US Senators, led by Tom Cotton, warned in the letter. “Such actions are illegitimate and lack legal basis, and, if carried out, will result in severe sanctions against you and your institution.” Senators Mitch McConnell (minority leader), Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio also signed the letter. |
Document:The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel's crimes | Article | 27 September 2024 | Jonathan Cook | By the third week of September, Israel had killed more than 750 Lebanese, compared to 33 Israeli deaths. The differential is even starker now. And yet the western media has not framed Hezbollah’s attacks as its "right to defend itself" – a right we are continuously reminded Israel has. |
Document:To continue the Gaza genocide, Israel and the US must destroy the laws of war | Article | 31 May 2024 | Jonathan Cook | Now, as Netanyahu and Gallant risk being put in the dock at The Hague, Washington is finally finding its resolve to act. Not to stop genocide. But to offer Israel protection to carry on. |
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