From Ben Gvir voices support for guards being probed over suspected fatal beating of security prisoner
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset, December 18, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir voices support for prison guards who have been questioned by police over the suspected fatal beating of a Palestinian security prisoner last month.
“I won’t conduct a field trial for the guards. They have the presumption of innocence and there is no place to decide their fate because a thorough probe is being carried out,” Ben Gvir, who heads the ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, says in a statement.
He adds: “We need to remember that our prison guards are dealing with the scum of the earth, murders, who pose a security threat.”
