The IDF soldiers who were arrested on Monday for allegedly abusing a terrorist held at the Sde Teiman detention camp were held overnight and are being brought for a hearing on Tuesday afternoon, where military police will ask for an extension of their arrest.
The soldiers’ arrest led to widespread anger and an unprecedented “revolt” – with protesters, including ministers and MKs, storming the Sdei Teiman facility and later the Beis Lid military police base, where the soldiers were interrogated and held.
Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich revealed shocking details about the behavior of the Military Prosecution in the case. “They proactively called Hamas terrorists in Gaza – terrorists who were held in Sde Teiman and were released to Gaza – and asked them if they had any testimony against IDF soldiers who guarded them there,” Smotrich revealed on Channel 14 News on Monday evening.
“This is unacceptable,” Smotrich continued. “It’s one thing if there’s a complaint, then it should be investigated. But to send investigators to proactively call Hamas terrorists in Gaza and ask for evidence against IDF soldiers. I’m saying this based on reliable information from people in the military system who were shocked by the instructions they received to carry out against IDF soldiers.”
Smotrich’s words were confirmed on Tuesday morning during a meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The top prosecutor at the military prosecutor’s office admitted that calls were made to terrorists in Gaza to find out about the treatment they received from IDF in Sde Teiman.
This means that 10 IDF soldiers were arrested, interrogated, and held overnight based on terrorists’ testimony!
Meanwhile, over nine months after the October 7 massacre, the Military Prosecution has not completed even one indictment against the Nukbah terrorists but they somehow have time to investigate IDF soldiers.
Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech, who participated in the Foreign Affairs and Defense meeting, told Arutz Sheva: “We are dealing with a Military Advocate General whose worldviews are sick and distorted. We don’t begin to understand the depth and breadth of the consequences of yesterday’s events in relation to our soldiers, in relation to the message that goes out to the world, and in relation to those who are holding our hostages.”
It should be noted that Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was summoned to the Knesset meeting on the issue but did not show up.
Journalist Akiva Bigman wrote about Tomer-Yerushalmi: “Since entering office, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has not missed an opportunity to lead the politicization, polarization, and radicalization of the military prosecution system. Under her leadership, the military prosecutor’s office became a branch of The Hague, a hostile body trying to introduce foreign interests into the IDF and harm its fighting spirit.”
MK Almog Cohen responded: “I am astonished that phone calls were made to terrorists inside Gaza while our holy soldiers are fighting the most justified war in history. This is a moral bankruptcy of the army commanders, led by the Military Prosecution, who are seeking victims from our children who were sent to battle.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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From Rotter, 7.29.24:
Revealed: the terrorist who was allegedly attacked by the fighters – a senior terrorist in the Gaza Strip – Company-Commander in the town of Jabalia.
The identity of the alleged terrorist who complained against the IDF soldiers has been revealed – he is a senior terrorist from the police station in the town of Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip.
This is an incident that took place about a month ago, the Company-Commander in Jabaliya, was transferred that day from Ofer prison to Sde-Teiman, apparently following a riot event that he was a part of in Ofer prison. The fighters from unit-100, as part of the procedure, searched him. attack and bite the fighters. One of the fighters was even injured by the attack.
Today, about a month after the incident, 9 of the fighters were arrested in the Yemen field on suspicion of attacking the terrorist.
Attorney Adi Keider and Attorney Nati Rom from the Honenu organization represent a number of the fighters, the lawyers arrived today in the afternoon at the military base in Beit Lid to represent the detainees, after being summoned by the soldiers and their families. According to the lawyers of the Defense Ministry and the military prosecutor’s office, for over two hours the fighters were prevented from representing me legally and the meeting with the lawyers was prevented. After over two hours, the lawyers met 3 of the detainees.
Attorney Adi Keidar from the Honenu organization said, “Shame, shame, shame. I am on my way to the soldiers who were arrested, as a reserve officer until recently for over 25 years, I am ashamed today, and especially in recent times. Every day I advise our good soldiers, who left their families and went to serve the country in wartime, and find themselves in the interrogation rooms, someone in the military prosecutor’s office lost it. We will demand their release today.”
Attorney Nati Rom from Honenu added: “I am on my way to help a reservist, a member of an entire family, who performed hundreds of reserve days with great dedication, under difficult conditions in Sde-Teiman..”
And? After all the talk, is there nothing that can be done? That army advocate can’t be fired fir gross misjudgment?
Enough talk already!
I am sure that these upright honorable people, now back in Gaza, did not err an inch/millimeter from the truth about what the IDF soldiers did and that their version of events can be accepted as absolute truth, not even requiring reasonable legal sceptism. These lawyers call Bibi a lier but these terrorists would never lie, even at the risk of being put to death.
– Anyone think that we need a reform to the legal justice system in Israel ?
this all part of the need for judicial reform. Till that happens Israel is not a democracy. the real rulers are the Judges on the Supreme Court and the “Advocates”. They stand on top of the elected Knesset Members and dictate what they are allowed and not allowed to do.
I agree with circle above
There must be some checks and balances here.
You can say voting counts. But all the politicians voted in are right wing and incensed by this. So voting doesn’t help…..?
The terrorists were hospitalized well after their arrest for recent damage to their anuses and other evidence of torture. They may all be chayiv misah, but if there is actual extralegal torture going on it’s good that we stops it. It only hurts us in the long run.
Aha. And the bare headed pork eating michallel Shabbos dog, the always angry one, Yoav Gallant, wants to drag bnei Torah out of the Bais medrash to join this charade?!
The reason not to join the Israeli army is because the decisions are made by secular politicians, lawmakers and judges, a Torah Jew cannot place his life in the hands of secular decision makers who send soldiers to die en masse instead of carpet bombing from the air. All other reasons and discussions are mere attempts to distract attention from the plain and simple truth. In the army of a genuine Malchus Yisroel Torah Jews will be the first to join like Matisyahu Kohen Gadol and his sons.