Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and State Prosecutor Amit Aisman have authorized a police investigation into two members of the government and one former lawmaker for breaking into the IDF’s Sde Teiman base in southern Israel last July, Channel 12 reports.
According to the report, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit), MK Nissim Vaturi (Likud), and former MK Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) will be questioned under caution about their role in the riot and subsequent break-in at the base.
The lawmakers were among dozens of far-right activists who rioted outside the base on July 29, 2024, after nine IDF soldiers were detained by Military Police investigators amid allegations of severe abuse against a Palestinian terror detainee.
Sukkot, who was recently forced out of the Knesset under the Norwegian Law, previously defended his actions in breaking into Sde Teiman, saying: “I was doing my job.”
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