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The Israeli army’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, has recommended General Barak Hiram for the post of military secretary to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ynet reported on 7 May.

Hiram is a controversial candidate due to his actions on 7 October 2023, when he ordered tanks to open fire on a house in Kibbutz Beeri where Hamas fighters were holding Israeli captives.

The attack killed 13 of the 15 Israeli civilians inside the house, including 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni and her brother Yanai.

Yasmin Porat, one of the two Israelis who survived the incident, stayed with Liel and the other captives for several hours in the house. She states they were guarded by the Palestinian fighters who treated them “humanely” and whose “objective was to kidnap us to Gaza. Not to murder us.”