Top Israeli Describes IDF Soldiers Accused in Brutal Gang Rape of Palestinian Inmate ‘Heroic Warriors’
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Top Israeli officials joined far-right rioters on Monday as they clashed with police and broke into Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman military detention center in protest over the arrest of nine IDF soldiers accused in a brutal gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner that left him unable to walk.
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Bezalel Smotrich, the extremist Israeli finance minister, described the soldiers accused of badly wounding the Palestinian detainee’s rectum area “heroic warriors,” according to Middle East Eye.
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Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu and MK Otzma Yehudit joined the protesters, who clashed with police outside the facility, Haaretz reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a return of order at the facility.
Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense head who faces war crimes charges for his role in the Gaza genocide, said he appreciates the difficult task that IDF troops face at these detention centers but the military must “continue to act in accordance with the law,” adding that "the law applies to everyone, even if angry,” Haaretz reported.
The Associated Press, citing human rights groups, reported that Israel has been accused of “disappearing” Gaza Palestinians—detaining them without charge or trial and not disclosing to family or lawyers where they’re held. Israel’s prison service says all “basic rights required are fully applied by professionally trained prison guards.”