Far-right MK questioned by police for breaking into base holding reservists accused of abusing Gaza detainee

Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot is questioned under caution by police over his role in last year’s break-in to the IDF’s Sde Teiman military base.

The far-right lawmaker was summoned in October by the Southern District police’s fraud division and agreed to present himself to investigators, over his participation in a mob that rioted outside the base in July 2024.

The riot erupted after Military Police sparked outrage on the right after detaining several reservists on suspicion of abusing a Gazan detainee held there.

Upon reaching the station in Beersheba today, Sukkot rails against his interrogation as a political stunt to distract attention from police’s other Sde Teiman-related probe — into the leaking of footage said to document the soldiers’ abuse.

The far-right lawmaker tells reporters that the summons he received is an attempt by law enforcement to “obscure the crimes committed in the prosecutor’s office,” referring to the leak probe, whose prime suspect is former military advocate general Maj. Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who confessed she leaked the footage to the media.

“I came to Sde Teiman to defend our soldiers against a large and powerful system. I have said more than once that I would not have done so had I known civilians would enter the base,” he tells reporters. “But as an MK I am allowed to enter, and that is also the position of my lawyers.”