(1.2.05) the Court imposed harsh punishments in spirit of the law the first defendant received a sentence of 13 year imprisonment and a sum of 25,000 NIS as compensation to be paid to each victim, the second defendant received a sentence of 6 years and 15,000 NIS to be paid as compensation to each victim.

We should like to call the attention of the Security Council to an alarming statement made by Mordechai Gur, Israeli Deputy Minister of Defence, concerning Israel apos s possession of nuclear weapons.

He urged States parties to bring pressure to bear on Israel and to demand that Mordechai Vanunu should be released so that he could work for the cause of abolition.

34. On 14 October 1993, it was reported that the Deputy Defence Minister Mordechai Gur had approved the reinforcement of security arrangements for the settlements in Gaza, along the confrontation line, and around Jericho.

In this context, non governmental organizations are urged to support the campaign for Mordechai Vanunu apos s immediate release from the brutal and inhumane confinement he is suffering for alerting the world to the Israeli nuclear threat.

quot The Israeli Deputy Minister of Defence, Mordechai Gur, said on Sunday, 6 June 1993, that Israel would respond to a nuclear strike from any Arab State a hundred times over.

On 20 July 1994, Deputy Defence Minister Mordechai Gur told the Knesset that only 19,000 of the 35,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who had work permits actually worked in Israel.

Indeed, we have reached the point today at which the Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, Mordechai Gur, can arrogantly declare, as he did on 6 June 1993, that Israel does possess nuclear weapons and that it has the capacity to bomb the Arab States with those devices.

quot Mordechai Gur, speaking at a meeting held at the Institute for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University on the twelfth anniversary of the Israeli attack on the Tammuz reactor in Iraq, said that Arab leaders must realize that a nuclear attack on Israel could not be to their advantage.

431. On 17 January 1994, Deputy Defence Minister Mordechai Gur approved a plan in the amount of approximately 33.3 million aimed at increasing security in settlements throughout the West Bank (and the Gaza Strip). (Jerusalem Post, 18 January 1994)

This official statement of the Deputy Minister of Defence is unequivocal and indubitable confirmation that Israel does have nuclear weapons and that it possesses a large stock of them General Mordechai Gur speaks clearly and shamelessly of the hundreds of nuclear strikes that Israel can make against the Arab countries.