Ex-’Israeli’ President Shimon Peres Dead
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Former "Israeli" President Shimon Peres, known as the regime's "last remaining founding father," has died almost two weeks after suffering a stroke.
The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv pronounced the 93-year-old dead at 0000 GMT on Wednesday.
He had been rushed to hospital on September 13 following chest pains, an abnormal heartbeat and severe internal bleeding.
While receiving medical care, officials described his condition as serious, putting him in a medically-induced coma in the intensive care unit.
Over five decades of politicking, Peres held nearly every major office in the occupying regime's ranks.
He served as foreign minister under his Labor Party rival Yitzhak Rabin, became prime minister between 1984 and 1986, and then again during 1995-96 after Rabin's death. He also served as the regime's president from 2007 to 2014.
The career also saw him once functioning as the minister for military affairs.
Under Peres's tenure as president, two full-scale wars were launched against the "Israeli"-blockaded Gaza Strip, which killed more than 3,700 Palestinians in total.
While he was in office as prime minister in 1996, the "Israeli" military shelled a United Nations compound near Qana, a village in southern Lebanon, where hundreds of locals were sheltering. The raid killed 106 people and injured around 116 others.
As director general of the ministry of military affairs in the 1950s, Peres oversaw the development of "Israel's" nuclear program with assistance from France.
The "Israeli" atomic stockpile is now estimated to be holding at some 200-400 warheads, while the regime refuses to confirm or deny its existence under a policy of deliberate ambiguity.
"Israel" claimed existence in 1948 after carrying out a wholesale war against Arab states and capturing massive swathes of Arab land.
A year earlier, Peres joined the Haganah, the predecessor of the "Israeli" military. He had been tasked by his mentor David Ben-Gurion, the so-called "primary founder of the "Israeli" entity and first "Israeli" premier, with recruitment of personnel and arms purchases.
"As long as there was a danger to the existence of "Israel", I was what you would call a hawk," Peres once said.
His career was also marked by an incessant push to expand the regime's illegal settlements, which have been mushrooming across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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