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Netanyahu ordered Israeli army to turn off recording of meetings after October 7
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli army to turn off its recording system in the command centre of military headquarters after the start of the war, according to a report in the Haaretz newspaper.
That means that all security cabinet meetings, which are recorded routinely, were not taped as the army complied with the order, the report in the Israeli newspaper said.
Netanyahu insisted, the report added, that only specific security cabinet meetings he wanted would be recorded or transcribed by his office and not by the army.
The report also revealed that soon after October 7, the prime minister moved all security cabinet meetings to his office in Tel Aviv. The move was aimed at holding meetings in a place Netanyahu could control rather than trusting the army not to record them, a source told Haaretz.
Israel minister demands West Bank annexation if UN court rules against it
Hardline Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the prime minister to annex the occupied West Bank if the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules Israeli settlements are illegal this week.
Smotrich told reporters, “No one will move the people of Israel from their land”, the Times of Israel quoted him as saying yesterday.
It's not their land...
Lebanese state, not just Hezbollah, should pay ‘heavy price’: Israeli minister
Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has called for his country to open a new front in the north, making the state of Lebanon and not only the Hezbollah armed group pay “a heavy price” for the attacks on northern Israel.
“We are at the end of the Phase 3 in Gaza, so we need to move to the north and charge them a significant price,” Cohen said in an interview with Israel’s Radio Kol Barama.
Minister warns against withdrawal from Netzarim, Philadelphi corridors: Report
Orit Struck, Israel’s minister of settlements and national missions, has issued a threat to Netanyahu during her visit to the Karem Abu Salem crossing between Israel and Gaza, known in Israel as Kerem Shalom.
“We are in Kerem Shalom, and 50 metres [164ft] from us is Rafah. Whoever thinks of raising his hand to get the [Israeli army] out of here should first come here and look the residents in the eyes,” she was quoted as saying by Israel’s Maariv newspaper.
“We said clearly that if they get the [army] out of the Netzarim Corridor and the Philadelphi Corridor, we will dismantle the government. Netanyahu knows this very well,” she added, according to the report.
The Philadelphi Corridor refers to the strip of land that represents the entirety of the border area between Gaza and Egypt. The Netzarim Corridor, named after the Netzarim Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, separates northern Gaza from southern Gaza.
