Netanyahu slams Israeli Army chief prosecutor for leaking video of abuse of Palestinian prisoner

The leak of a video from the security cameras of the Sde Teiman prisonin which you see a group of Israeli Army soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian prisonerhas caused a real earthquake in Israel that has already claimed its first victim. It is about Jufat Tomer-Jerushalmithe head of the Military Prosecutor’s Office, accused of participating in the publication of the images.

The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katzreported this Friday of the decision to dismiss Tomer-Yerushalmi. The prosecutor, as reported The Times of Israelhas already submitted his resignation to the head of the Israel Defense Forces, General Eyal Zamir, who has accepted it. The Army promised a few days ago a “deep investigation” to “discover the truth”.

The case, which has set off alarm bells and has provoked criticism from the military leadership regarding what they consider a document that endangers the IDFhas pushed Katz to announce that the prosecutor “will not return to her position.” In this sense, he has assured that he will guarantee that justice is done against “anyone who takes action against the soldiers of the Israeli Army” in the face of what he has described as “blood defamation.”

“Given the seriousness of the suspicions (about the leak) and the sensitivity of the law enforcement position he holds, there are no reasons for him to return to office“, the Minister of Defense stated in a statement in which he advanced that Tomer would be required to “leave his position.” Katz has announced that the process to elect the new military prosecutor will begin “as soon as possible.”

The video shows how Israeli soldiers choose a man lying naked above ground at the base of Sde Teiman. Later, the military places him next to a wall and abuses him while they cover themselves with shields to hide their identity.

The images were revealed by the Channel 12 and they date back to August 2024. The suspicions handled in the prime minister’s cabinet Benjamin Netanyahu They target people close to the Police Headquarters and senior officials of the Military Prosecutor General’s Office. The investigation by Israeli authorities aims to determine whether Tomer Yerushalmi was aware of the incident and whether he ordered the leak of the video.

The Palestinian prisoner who was the victim of abuse by the uniformed men, according to the Israeli NGO Doctors for Human Rights, “arrived at the hospital with a life-threatening condition and with injuries to his upper body and a serious injury to the rectum“Ten soldiers were arrested shortly after the video was leaked, half of whom were released.

These arrests provoked violent demonstrations in front of the Sde Teiman prison, encouraged by some far-right ministers such as the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Trueor Finance, Bezalel Smotrichboth in favor of mistreating Palestinian detainees and applying the death penalty.

Since the beginning of the invasion of the Gaza Strip following the terrorist attacks of 7-O, thousands of Palestinians have been interned in Sde Teiman, a detention center located in the southern Negev desert.

According to Amnesty International and other organizations, the Israeli authorities practice in this prison systematic torture, beatings and sexual assaults against Palestinian captives, many of them without formal charges against them, in areas that escape security cameras.

More than a hundred bodies of Palestinians handed over by Israel as part of the first phase of the peace agreement were mutilated, according to reports The Guardian Sources from the Gaza Ministry of Health. All the bodies examined came from the Sde Teiman detention center. An investigation by the British newspaper revealed that detainees are locked in cages, chained to beds and forced to wear diapers.