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HARDtalk: Danny Danon - Former Deputy Defence Minister, Israel

Israel's former deputy defence minister Danny Danon

23/07/2014

Danny Danon - Former Deputy Defence Minister, Israel

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Danny Danon talks about Israel's campaign in Gaza in response to rocket strikes by Hamas.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Danny Danon, former Israel deputy defence minister, about Israel's campaign in Gaza in response to rocket strikes by Hamas.

Israel says its current campaign in Gaza is in response to rocket strikes from Hamas militants and is aimed at destroying illicit tunnels Hamas uses to smuggle arms. In more than two weeks of conflict around 600 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed and nearly 4,000 wounded. The UN human rights commissioner says Israel may have committed war crimes. About 30 Israelis have died, nearly all of them soldiers. 

HARDtalk speaks to Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. He was dismissed as deputy defence minister earlier this month for accusing the prime minister of being too weak in his Gaza campaign. How does he justify the high Palestinian death toll?

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