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Monday, July 29, 2024
Ben Gvir demands IDF legal officer ‘take her hands off the reservists’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir releases a video appeal to IDF Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi “to take her hands off the reservists.”
“As in the Israel Prison Service so in the IDF. Our fighters deserve full backing,” he says.
Ben Gvir’s statement comes as far-right lawmakers and activists break into the IDF’s Sde Teiman base after nine soldiers were taken from there earlier today for questioning for allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee.
Among those who broke into the base, which serves as a detention facility, is MK Zvi Succot of the far-right Religious Zionism party.
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