In October 2023, an application was widespread on Israel's refusal to follow international humanitarian law, allegedly made by the Minister of Defense of this country. We checked if he said something like that.

“We canceled all the rules for warfare. Our soldiers will never be responsible for anything. There will be no military courts ”-this is the statement attributed to Yoav Galanta, became popular against the background of the largest exacerbation of the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past decades, which began on October 7 with the attack of the militants of the Hamas group. The fact that Israel has canceled all the rules of warfare and the Israeli military will not be liable for actions during operation in Gaza, on October 10, a number of Russian federal media reported, including the newspaper "Sight"And the TV channel"Tsargrad". The RIA Novosti website even extended columnwho compares the statement of Galant with the words of Hitler. Quote I became viral In Telegram, having gained, according to TGSTAT, more than 17 million views only on the first day of distribution, October 10.

Such a close attention to the statement is probably caused by the fact that in recent days international organizations expressed fears and even accusations against Israel regarding the reciprocal airstrikes on the gas sector. So, Human Rights Watch Human Rights Conducted Israel in use phosphorus ammunition, and the Supreme Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Folker Turk He called Review the decision on the blockage of a gase, which jeopardizes the life of civilians. Similar assessment gave and the Supreme EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrel, and US President Joe Biden declared About the importance of following the rules of war. The mentioned officials emphasized that Israel has the right to defend himself, but cannot at the same time violate international humanitarian law.

"Verified" studied the available statements of the Minister of Defense of Israel. October 10 Yoav Galant saidthat the country is planning a full -scale offensive and that the gas sector will never be what it was before. Galant made this statement during a meeting with the military in the border zone.

“I removed all the restrictions, we restored control over this territory and go into a full -scale offensive. <...> You will have the opportunity to change reality here. You saw the price of this and you can see the changes. Hamas wanted changes in the gas sector. The change will be 180 degrees from what was supposed. <...> They will regret this moment, [the sector] of gas will never be the same as it was before. Those who come to decline, kill women and survivors in the Holocaust, we will destroy with all our might and without compromises, ” - declared Galant in his appeal. This is a rigid statement, but it does not say about the refusal to comply with international law. And the phrase on the removal of restrictions in the context of words about “restoration of control over this territory” implies the abolition of the regime of a special position, introduced Galant immediately after the Hamas attack in the areas of Israel adjacent to the gas.

About the rules of war Galant He said Two days before, during a meeting with the military in the city of Ofim on October 8, but there was no phrase in this statement about the rejection of the rules of war: “The rules of the war changed. The price that the gas sector will pay will be very high and will change the reality for several generations. ” These words were also spoken in the context of the massacres of the Israelis and capture Members of Hamas entered the hostiles - Hamas members came in.

Galant’s statements about military courts in these dates were “verified”, as in the principle of news about their creation or liquidation in Israel.

The transcript of the appeal of October 10 was published by the Times of Israel newspaper at 20:33 Moscow time. At 21:05 the quote is already in a distorted form appeared In Russian in the Grey Zone Telegram channel (258,000 views; this is the earliest of the discovered “verified” sources) and Beginning To spread through other channels, and at 22:49 a note was released in the “look”, which gave a quote about the rejection of the rules of war and the lack of responsibility for Israeli soldiers.

Thus, the Minister of Defense of Israel, judging by the affordable messages in the media and official sources, did not utter the words assigned to him, and Israel did not refuse to comply with the rules of warfare. The distorted quote appeared and became a viral in the Russian -language segment of Telegram, from where she fell into the Russian media.

Photo on the cover: Yoav Galant at a meeting with the military. Israeli Ministry of Defense