Israeli Targeted Killings
Targeted prevention (Hebrew: סיכול ממוקד sikul memukad) or focused foiling is the term used in the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to describe the targeted killing of a person with proven intentions of performing a specific act of violence in the very near future, or one linked indirectly with several acts of violence (organizing, planning, researching means of destruction, etc.), which raises the likelihood that his or her death would disrupt similar activities in the future. The Israeli army maintains that it pursues such military operations to prevent imminent attacks when it has no discernible means of making an arrest or foiling such attacks by other methods. On December 14, 2006, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that targeted killing is a legitimate form of self-defense against terrorists, and outlined several conditions for its use.
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