Former defense minister Yoav Gallant says Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi lied to him about an internal investigation into the leaked Sde Teiman abuse video.
“Immediately after the video from Sde Teiman was leaked, I instructed that a swift investigation be opened to find the leaker and bring them to justice,” Gallant says on X.
“I summoned the military advocate general to my office to understand why the investigation was stalling. I asked her why the leaker had not been identified. In her response, as is now clear to everyone, the military advocate general deliberately lied and said that ‘the investigation is lengthy because dozens of people were exposed to the video,'” he says.
Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted this morning in her resignation letter that she approved the video to be leaked, claiming it was a counter to “false propaganda directed against the military law enforcement authorities” over the investigation into the abuse of a Gazan detainee at Sde Teiman.
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