Yoav Gallant is an Israeli politician and retired Israel Defense Forces major general who served as Israel's minister of defense from December 2022 to November 2024. A former commander of the navy's Shayetet 13 unit and of the IDF Southern Command, he entered the Knesset in 2015 and held the construction, aliyah and integration, and education portfolios before leading the defense ministry. He left the Knesset in January 2025.
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Haaretz reported that Israel's military used the Hannibal procedure on October 7, 2023, and a UN inquiry said Israeli fire likely killed at least 14 civilians in two incidents. The IDF defends its Be'eri tank fire. Mehdi Hasan says Western media ignored the question.
