Israeli legislation college students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a legislation scholar within the Buchmann College of Legislation at Tel Aviv College and a JURIST Workers Correspondent in Israel.
In the present day, Saturday the seventh of October, was the Jewish vacation of Simchat Torah, a day the place many individuals dance, pray, and have festive meals with their households celebrating the Torah. However in the present day, none of that occurred as Hamas launched an surprising assault on Israel this morning.
The assault isn’t just surprising, however unprecedented when it comes to scope. Assaults by air, land, and sea, 1000’s of rockets, hostages, raping, murdering. These actions have been condemned by the EU in addition to many different world leaders. The breadth and brutality of this assault will form Israel for a few years to return, simply because the Yom Kippur Warfare did 50 years in the past. 200 useless and over 1000 injured to this point, in response to stories seen right here. Israel has declared an all-out state of battle and has promised each protection and retaliation in an operation known as Swords of Iron.
Individuals are scared. Lacking individuals flyers are being despatched out on social media. Individuals are in search of their family members and fearing they’ve been killed or taken hostage.
How did this occur? To reply that we are going to want nuanced and deep dialogue. However proper now, as casualties rise, each in Israel and Gaza, I can solely look on in horror and concern.
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