Editing Israel Defense Forces (section)

===Targeted killing===
{{main|Targeted killing by Israel}}
Targeted killing, targeted prevention<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://elyon1.court.gov.il/Files/02/690/007/a34/02007690.a34.HTM |title=בג"ץ 769/02 |language=he |access-date=5 February 2016 |archive-date=30 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030011111/http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files/02/690/007/a34/02007690.a34.HTM |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gRuiNWNj_yEC&q=targeted+prevention+israel&pg=PA11 |title=Targeted Killings and International Law |author=Roland Otto |isbn=9783642248580 |date=2011-12-01 |publisher=Springer |access-date=13 October 2023 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129230220/https://books.google.com/books?id=gRuiNWNj_yEC&q=targeted+prevention+israel&pg=PA11#v=snippet&q=targeted%20prevention%20israel&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> or assassination<ref name=Gross>{{cite journal |title=Assassination and Targeted Killing: Law Enforcement, Execution or Self-Defence? |first=Michael |last=Gross |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2006.00347.x |doi=10.1111/j.1468-5930.2006.00347.x |journal=Journal of Applied Philosophy |volume=23 |issue=3 |date=August 2006 |pages=323–335 |access-date=13 October 2023 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129230120/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2006.00347.x |url-status=live | issn = 0264-3758}}</ref> is a tactic that has been repeatedly used by the IDF and other Israeli organisations in the course of the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], the [[Iran–Israel proxy conflict]] or other conflicts.<ref name=Gross/>

In 2005, [[Asa Kasher]] and [[Amos Yadlin]] co-authored a noticed article published in the ''Journal of Military Ethics'' under the title: "Military Ethics of Fighting Terror: An Israeli Perspective". The article was meant as an "extension of the classical Just War Theory", and as a "[needed] third model" or missing paradigm besides which of "classical war (army) and law enforcement (police).", resulting in a "doctrine (...) on the background of the IDF fight against acts and activities of terror performed by Palestinian individuals and organizations."<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/15027570510014642| title = Military Ethics of Fighting Terror: An Israeli Perspective (abstract)| date = April 2005| last1 = Kasher | first1 = A. | last2 = Yadlin | first2 = A. | journal = Journal of Military Ethics| volume = 4| issue = 1| pages = 3–32| s2cid = 144060204}}</ref>

In this article, Kasher and Yadlin concluded that [[targeted killing]]s of terrorists were justifiable, even at the cost of hitting nearby civilians. In a 2009 interview to ''[[Haaretz]]'', Asa Kasher later confirmed, pointing to the fact that in an area in which the IDF does not have effective security control (e.g., Gaza, vs. East-Jerusalem), soldiers' lives protection takes priority over avoiding injury to enemy civilians.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-philosopher-who-gave-the-idf-moral-justification-in-gaza-1.269527|title=The Philosopher Who Gave the IDF Moral Justification in Gaza|work=Haaretz.com|access-date=8 March 2016|archive-date=29 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029095058/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-philosopher-who-gave-the-idf-moral-justification-in-gaza-1.269527|url-status=live}}</ref> Some, along with [[Avishai Margalit]] and [[Michael Walzer]], have disputed this argument, arguing that such a position was "contrary to centuries of theorizing about the morality of war as well as international humanitarian law",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10705&jid=1&href=fulltext|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103123507/http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10705&jid=1&href=fulltext|url-status=dead|title=Khalidi,''The Most Moral Army in the World?'', Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol 39, no. 3 (Spring 2010), p. 6|archive-date=3 November 2011}}</ref> since drawing "a sharp line between combatants and noncombatants" would be "the only morally relevant distinction that all those involved in a war can agree on."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/05/14/israel-civilians-combatants/|title=Israel: Civilians & Combatants|first1=Michael|last1=Walzer|first2=Avishai|last2=Margalit|journal=The New York Review of Books |date=14 May 2009|volume=56 |issue=8 |via=www.nybooks.com|access-date=28 June 2019|archive-date=16 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616053634/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/05/14/israel-civilians-combatants/|url-status=live}}</ref>