Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered the government to reconsider thousands of gun licenses issued after October 7, saying in an interim ruling that the procedures by which the permits were approved violated the law.

The Justices also set a November 20 deadline for the state to investigate ways to suspend the licenses.

Acting Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit and justices Yael Wilner and Ofer Grosskopf said in their ruling that they “were provided with data regarding the extent of licenses issued by parties who are not licensing officials according to the Firearm Law, 1949, and the number of permits issued by those parties in violation of the authority given to them.”