A host of shocking reports on Monday revealed that Israeli soldiers in the Sde Teiman detention facility are accused of raping a Palestinian detainee. The allegation comes after Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in June that at least thirty-six Palestinian captives from Gaza may have been tortured to death by Israeli soldiers at the same facility.
Haaretz reports that nine IDF soldiers have been detained by the police for gang raping the Gazan detainee so severely that he had to be hospitalized. The victim arrived at the hospital with gruesome injuries, including “a serious wound in his rectum area.” Israeli media outlets report that the victim has lost his ability to walk.
Footage shows Israeli military police breaking into Sde Teiman to arrest the gang rapists, where they clashed with the soldiers, who reportedly barricaded themselves into the facility and used pepper spray to defend themselves, before being ultimately taken into custody.
Right now: Israeli Military Police arrives at Sde Timan jail to arrest soldiers for rape and torture of Palestinian detainees. Soldiers on the scene are resisting the arrests, and several government ministers and MKs are on their way to support the soldiers against police https://t.co/8G4vvRHC6e
— Haggai Matar (@Ha_Matar) July 29, 2024
The Israeli Knesset, which is in summer recess, is holding an emergency discussion tomorrow to defend the detained soldiers, according to Ynet. Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, praised the soldiers as “heroic warriors,” demanding their immediate release. Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has hailed the soldiers as “our best heroes” and denounced their arrest as “nothing less than shameful.” Knesset members from the Likud ruling party are stating openly that it’s “legitimate” to rape Palestinian detainees. An Israeli mob has descended on the Sde Teiman concentration camp in a mass protest in…
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