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The Israeli Defense Forces have been accused of using Palestinians as human shields. Examples of this include: IDF soldiers putting Palestinian civilians in front of them or otherwise putting civilians in the line of fire; [9] forcing Palestinians to remove suspicious objects (possible explosives); [9] sending Palestinians to try and persuade militants to surrender themselves (so-called ...
Claims of torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence against detained Palestinians by Israel, have been made before the 7 October attacks and invasion of Gaza, [17] [18] [19] with documentation recorded by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) [20] [21] and Amnesty International. [22]
TPWD publishes Texas Parks and Wildlife, a monthly magazine available both in print and online editions. The magazine features articles and full-color photos on topics such as birding, boating, camping, fishing, hunting, state parks, travel, wildlife, and environmental issues. Texas Parks and Wildlife has been in publication since 1942. [14]
[342] [343] [344] On 26 May Nasser declared, "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel". [345] Israel considered the Straits of Tiran closure a Casus belli. Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq signed defence pacts and Iraqi troops began deploying to Jordan, Syria and Egypt. [346]
The Israeli military suffered five wounded and one killed; Yonatan Netanyahu was Israel's sole fatality of Operation Entebbe, and had led Sayeret Matkal during the rescue effort – he was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, who would later become Israel's prime minister. [21]
At the end of the British Mandate, with the establishment of the State of Israel and entry of Arab regular armies into what had been Mandatory Palestine, the 1948 war became an international conflict. [41] At the end of the war, the Green Line established by the 1949 Armistice Agreements became the de facto borders of the State of Israel. [41]
Until that point the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza had enjoyed the support of the Israeli authorities and had refrained from violent attacks. However, Hamas quickly began attacks on Israeli military targets, and subsequently, Israeli civilians. The Israeli army killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the First Intifada whilst 164 Israelis were killed.
By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch, where the balloon subsequently crashed.