Lapid slams break-in to Sde Teiman base as ‘despicable and dangerous criminality’

By Sam Sokol 29 July 2024, 4:19 pm

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. 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"

File: Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid condemns lawmakers who broke into the IDF’s Sde Teiman base alongside far-right activists after nine soldiers were taken from there earlier today for questioning for allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee.

Their actions constitute “despicable and dangerous criminality” that only serves to “weaken” the IDF and state and “eats away at the foundations of our power from within.”

“The politicians who abandoned the hostages, abandoned security and destroyed Israeli society are now destroying the chain of command. The country is in existential danger if these people do not leave power,” he declares.