A security source tells Ynet that the Shin Bet, in cooperation with its legal department and in consultation with the Justice Ministry, received an investigative permit to apply intense interrogation techniques to suspected Jewish extremists by treating them as “ticking time bombs.”
The Shin Bet says it applied the techniques for fear that some suspects who had not yet been arrested in connection with the Duma murders may want to carry out another terrorist attack.
Duma terror suspect interviewed by Channel 2 (Channel 2 screenshot)
Earlier, the Shin Bet security service denied all allegations that it tortured detainees in an ongoing investigation into a terror attack by suspected Jewish extremists, calling the claims “deceitful” and “entirely disconnected from reality.”
The families and attorneys of those currently being investigated for carrying out the deadly firebombing of the Dawabsha family home in late July have accused Israel’s internal security agency of beating the suspects, spitting on them, shocking them with electricity and hitting them in the genitals.
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