Bereaved families clashed outside Israel\u2019s Supreme Court on Thursday morning as justices heard petitions\u00a0seeking\u00a0to require the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The confrontation involved families divided over the government\u2019s policies and the role of the court, with pro-government demonstrators accusing opponents of backing a judiciary they said had restricted the Israel Defense Forces from taking action that could have prevented October 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Others opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has actively resisted the establishment of a formal State Commission of Inquiry\u2014Israel\u2019s highest-level, independent investigative body\u2014to examine the October 7, 2023, attack. They said only an official inquiry would be objective and free of political bias.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz commented on the incidents, writing that \u201cthe confrontations between bereaved parents, less than 48 hours after we commemorated the memory of the fallen, are heartbreaking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Inside the courtroom, High Court justices challenged arguments by government representative Michael Rabello, who said the court lacks authority to\u00a0establish\u00a0a commission of inquiry into October 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the rulings of the High Court\u00a0establish\u00a0that the court has the authority to intervene in irregular and extreme circumstances. Is this an irregular situation?\u201d Justice Yael Willner asked Rabello.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Referencing\u00a0the government\u2019s position, Justice Noam Solberg said, \u201cIs the decision of the government not extreme? In practice, nothing has been done. Is this not an extreme situation? What part of the government\u2019s conduct\u00a0hasn\u2019t\u00a0been extreme up to this point?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rabello has argued that court intervention would interfere with executive authority, describing such a move as \u201cextreme,\u201d unprecedented, and potentially biased.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bereaved families clashed outside Israel\u2019s Supreme Court on Thursday morning as justices heard petitions\u00a0seeking\u00a0to require the establishment of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-406567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}