Far-right MK Sukkot laments ‘selective enforcement’ after receiving police summons over military base break-in

Far-right lawmaker Zvi Sukkot pushes back against law enforcement’s bid to question him about his participation in a riot and break-in at the IDF’s Sde Teiman base last year.

He was among a small group of politicians who attempted to storm the detention facility in July 2024 alongside a group of right-wing activists, after the Military Police arrested several reservists on suspicion of severely abusing and sodomizing a Palestinian terror detainee.

The Religious Zionism MK was summoned this morning by the Southern District police’s fraud division and reportedly agreed to be questioned as a suspect. He is expected to be interrogated next month on November 11.

He nevertheless condemns the Sde Teiman probe in a filmed statement, calling it a politically motivated investigation and a case of “selective enforcement.”

“Under pressure from the Attorney General and State Attorney, the police decided to summon me for questioning in the Sde Teiman affair,” he says. “It’s clear to everyone that to summon a Knesset member for questioning under caution, more than a year after an event which was documented from every possible angle — is done only for political reasons.”

“I will continue to work and defend IDF soldiers, everywhere and at any time,” he says, doubling down on his assertion that alleged abuse by the reservists in Sde Teiman was made up. He dismisses aired footage of the assault as a “fabricated recording.”