Israel At War Monday June 17

 Israel at war day 255

- A newly surfaced document revealed the IDF had detailed knowledge of Hamas's plan to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people two weeks before the Oct. 7 massacre, but warnings were not acted on due to prevailing security conceptions and possible 

- After Hamas rejects ceasefire, Channel 12 reports that the Biden administration has removed all limits on arms deliveries to Israel.

- IDF says it has dismantled half of Hamas’s forces in Rafah, killed at least 550 gunmen

- The IDF is examining an unusual possibility: "It is possible that Hamas terrorists managed to smuggle hostages out of Rafah." (Israel Hayom)

- Netanyahu officially disbands war cabinet after Gantz’s departure from government

PM tells ministers the small forum created to manage war will not reconvene, with decisions instead made in ad hoc ‘consultations’; far-right’s Ben Gvir had been lobbying to join

- UTJ Knesset member Goldknopf on army draft: ‘You don’t want us and you don’t need us’

 Israel does not need or want Haredi conscripts, while wondering whether ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral victories did not give them the right to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community. “You still don’t understand us, why we say we live on the Torah, that without the Torah who knows where we’d be.”