List Of Israeli Assassinations
The following is a list of assassinations reported to have been conducted by the State of Israel. It includes attempts on notable persons who were reported to have been specifically targeted by the various Israeli security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Some refer to assassinations as targeted killings. The former Legal Advisor to the State Department Judge Sofaer, states that
...killings in self-defense are no more "assassinations" in international affairs than they are murders when undertaken by our police forces against domestic killers. Targeted killings in self-defense have been authoritatively determined by the federal government to fall outside the assassination prohibition.
This characterization is criticized by many, including Amnesty and the American Civil Liberty Union. ACLU refers to targeted killing programs as
an illegal program in which people far from any battlefield are determined to be enemies of the state and killed without charge or trial.
Some of the listed killings were denied by Israel. Most fall within a series of campaigns, including Operation Wrath of God (launched in response to the 1972 Munich massacre), Israeli actions in the wake of the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–), and strikes during the 2008–09 Gaza War. The policy of targeted killings is known in Hebrew as "focused foiling" (Hebrew: סיכול ממוקד sikul memukad).
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