“We’re fighting human beasts, and we’ll act accordingly,” former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared two days after the Hamas massacres of October 7, 2023. Widely quoted in the local and international media, Gallant likened the enemy to a hybrid creature – part human, part animal – vowing that the erupting campaign would be waged “accordingly.” But how, exactly, does one act “accordingly?” And what creatures, exactly, are we talking about?
