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Monday, July 29, 2024
‘IDF soldiers deserve respect’: Smotrich decries detention of servicemen suspected of abusing prisoners
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich rails against the arrest of IDF servicemen suspected of mistreating prisoners at the Sde Teiman detention facility.
“IDF soldiers deserve respect,” he states in a video message insisting that they not be treated as “criminals” and calling on IDF Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi to “take your hands off our heroic warriors.”
The Military Police officers sought to detain soldiers who were guarding terrorists from the Gaza Strip, as part of an investigation into an incident of suspected “serious abuse of a detainee.”
