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Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Far-right minister demands probe of military prosecutors over soldiers’ arrest
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Far-right Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock is demanding a cabinet discussion on the military’s investigation of soldiers suspected of abusing Palestinian detainees.
Five soldiers remain held over allegations of the brutal sexual abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman holding facility.
Strock in a letter to the cabinet secretary claims the Military Advocate General’s conduct in the case “seems marred by criminality while causing terrible strategic damage to the State of Israel.” She calls to investigate its actions.
Claiming military prosecutors have been leaking information to the media, she says the cabinet “cannot stand by while a body under its authority runs a media campaign against soldiers.”
She also claims investigative material that made its way to the media was “edited and twisted.”
Purported footage of the incident broadcast by Channel 12 news on Tuesday showed soldiers at Sde Teiman taking aside one of detainees, who had been lying face down on the floor, then surrounding him with riot shields while they allegedly committed the abuse.
The detainee was subsequently taken away for medical treatment for severe injury to his anus.
The Times of Israel Community.