*Far-Right Israelis Mob Bases After Soldiers Arrested for Allegedly Raping Palestinian* *Several Israeli lawmakers and one minister took part in the attempt to free the nine reservists, who were hailed as heroes by multiple Cabinet members.* by Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, July 30, 2024 https://www.commondreams.org/news/sde-teiman-riot
Far-right Israelis including government officials stormed two military bases late on Monday, sparking clashes with troops and police over the arrest of Israel Defense Forces reservists who allegedly gang-raped a Palestinian prisoner. Hundreds of protesters broke into the notorious Sde Teiman base in the Negev Desert in an attempt to stop the detention of nine reserve troops accused of sodomizing a Palestinian jailed there. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the victim is hospitalized with severe injuries and is unable to walk. The nine suspects were then taken to the Beit Lid army base, which was also mobbed by at least dozens of demonstrators. Base invaders included armed and masked members of Force 100, the military unit tasked with guarding prisoners at Sde Teiman. One of the nine arrested soldiers is reportedly a major in Force 100. High-ranking Israeli government officials also took part in Monday's riots, including Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu of the Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power, party. Members of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, including Yitzhak Kroizer and Limor Son Har-Melech (Otzma Yehudit), Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism), and Tally Gotliv (Likud), were also present. . . . Former prisoners including children and Israeli whistleblowers at Sde Teiman—often called "Israel's Guantánamo Bay"—have described rampant torture and abuse at the facility, which is used to imprison Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip. According to their testimonies, prisoners have been raped, electrocuted, mauled by dogs, burned with cigarettes, severely beaten, starved, and subjected to 24-hour shackling sometimes leading to amputations. The New York Times reported last month that one former Sde Teiman prisoner said he was forced to "sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire," and that another detainee "died after they put the electric stick" up his anus. IDF officials told Haaretz last month that the IDF is investigating the in-custody deaths of dozens of detainees, including 36 who died or were killed at Sde Teiman since October. . . . *Israeli Militants Riot Over Investigation Into Torture of Palestinian Prisoner* *The group of protesters, which included Israeli lawmakers, demanded release of soldiers suspected of rape.* by Sharon Zhang, Truthout, July 30, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-militants-riot-over-investigation-into-torture-of-palestinian-prisoner/ . . . In the Israeli Knesset on Monday, meanwhile, lawmakers debated whether or not sexual abuse was a legitimate tactic for Israeli soldiers. (International law considers sexual violence by soldiers to be a war crime.) One lawmaker in Netanyahu’s party, Hanoch Milwidsky, claimed that any treatment of a Hamas militant is legitimate. Reports have not identified the victim, though many reports have found that Israeli forces consider any Palestinian man or boy to be a member of Hamas. . . . Sexual violence is particularly prevalent in these Israeli torture camps, reports have found. The UN recently reported that many people, men and women, have said that they were sexually abused by the Israeli soldiers who were imprisoning them. These reports include molestation, rape, and physical abuse to sexual parts — including beating of and putting pepper on genitals, some survivors said. One survivor reported Israeli soldiers making him sit on an electrical probe, causing burns to his anus. Human Rights Watch also recently found that Israeli soldiers imprison children in their camps, again without charges. In some cases, Israeli soldiers strip the children — like other Palestinians held prisoner — and take pictures of them naked or near-naked, then post them on social media to mock them. # # # On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dennis Brasky via groups.io <dmozart1756= [email protected]> wrote: > > Rejecting these charges against the soldiers, a right wing mob that included members of the Parliament from the Likud and the Religious Zionist and Jewish Power blocs, then attempted several times to storm through the gates of the facility and finally succeeded in breaching the military barricades, attacking MPs and reaching the area where Palestinians are held. One soldier said that no one seemed to be in control. The unruly crowd chanted its support for torture and even called for the summary execution of the Palestinian prisoners. > > https://www.juancole.com/2024/07/parliament-palestinian-prisoners.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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