Very right-wing Late Monday night, Israeli nationalists broke into two military bases to protest the arrest and questioning of nine Israel Defence Forces reservists who are thought to have raped and abused a Palestinian prisoner so badly that he had to be taken to the hospital. On social media videos, guards at the Sde Teiman military camp and prison, which is near Beersheba in southern Israel, yell and push military police who came to question the reservists, which seems to be to protect the suspects.
Israeli troops have been fighting Hamas in Gaza since their horrific terrorist attack on October 7. The Sde Teiman facility is known to hold Palestinians who were caught in Gaza since then.
- Flights were slowed down while Israel thought about how to respond to Hezbollah’s actions.
The soldiers who are thought to have been involved in the abuse have been detained so that they can be questioned. This is unusual in Israel during a war, and it has made far-right Israelis, including some high-level government officials, very angry. On Monday night, a group of Israelis tried to break into another military base. One speaker said that if the suspects were not released, there would be a revolution against the government.
Nine Israeli troops who are thought to have abused the woman were supposed to go to court on Tuesday. The events have caused a lot of stress for Israelis and have shown how divided the country’s politics are.
At a meeting of lawmakers on Monday, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party defended the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, yelling angrily at other lawmakers who were asking the behaviour that anything was okay to do to “terrorists” in jail.
As lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky defended the claimed abuse, he was asked if it was okay “to stick a stick in someone’s rectum.”
In response to his fellow lawmaker, he yelled, “Yes!” “Everything is okay to do if he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant]!” Everything!”
The far right in Israel In a social media post, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said, “Take your hands off the reservists.” This is something that the U.S. has told him to stop doing since the war began because it is dangerous.
But other top Israeli leaders, like Netanyahu and army chief Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi, spoke out against the far-right protesters’ attack on the army base.
“Breaking into a military base and disturbing the order there is severe behaviour that is not acceptable in any way,” Halevi said in a statement. “We are in the midst of a war and actions of this type endanger the security of the state.”
Netanyahu told everyone to stay calm and strongly condemned the protesters for trying to break into the IDF base. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned that “even in hard times, the law applies to everyone—nobody may trespass into IDF bases or violate the laws of the state of Israel.”
Human rights groups, the UN, officials in Hamas-controlled Gaza, and former prisoners who were interviewed by foreign news outlets have all said that Palestinians in Israeli prisons were abused.
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The military of Israel says that its prisons are run in line with international law.
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