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On 29 July 2024, right-wing Israeli protestors stormed the Sde Teiman and Beit Lid Israeli military bases in response to the Israeli military detaining nine Israeli soldiers as part of an investigation into the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner. The protestors, lead by several right-wing Israeli politicians, including Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu and Knesset members Zvi Sukkot and Nissim Vaturi, sought the release of the soldiers and an end to any investigations into the conduct of Israeli soldiers.

Background

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This section is an excerpt from Sde Teiman detention camp.[edit]

Sde Teiman (Hebrew: שדה תימן) is an Israeli military base located in the Negev desert near the border with the Gaza Strip. During the Israel–Hamas war, its use as a detention camp doubled and gained international attention for its systemic human rights violations against its Palestinian detainees from the strip.[1][2][3]

Multiple released Palestinian detainees have testified they and others, including children, were subjected to rape, gang-rape, other forms of sexual violence as well as psychological and physical torture by both male and female Israeli soldiers and medical staff.[4][5][6][3] Multiple reports also speak of prisoners who suffered from medical neglect for injuries sustained, which led to cases of arm and leg amputations. Their testimonies have been corroborated by whistleblowing Israeli staff and a CNN investigation.[1] The mistreated detainees also included Palestinian healthcare workers who had been captured during Israeli raids on Gaza's hospitals.[7]

In one highly publicized incident, leaked CCTV footage showed Israeli soldiers gang raping a Palestinian detainee with a metal rod that caused him serious injuries to his anus and lungs.[8][9][10] The leak occurred few weeks after several soldiers suspected of the abuse of a prisoner were detained for questioning, leading to Israeli right-wing protesters and parliamentarians breaking into the camp in protest in late July 2024.[11]

All Gazans detained by Israel since the 7 October attack are classified as unlawful combatants rather than prisoners of war, which excludes them from rights like access to a lawyer.[12] Most detainees, in lieu of evidence that they are members of Hamas, are kept as suspects, without charges laid.[12] This classification is applied to all Gazans detained by Israel since October 2023, which The Guardian reported to be 849 people as of April 2024.[12]

Abuse of detainees

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See also: Torture during the Israel–Hamas war


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Events

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On 29 July 2024, the Israeli military police detained nine Israeli soldiers for questioning as part of an investigation of a suspected abuse of a Palestinian prisoner, recieved "signs of serious abuse, including to his anus".[14] In response, far-right politicians, including Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu and Knesset Member Zvi Sukkot urged their supporters to protest at Sde Teiman against the nine soldiers' detention.[15][16] Sukkot, Eliyahu, and Knesset Member Nissim Vaturi joined other right-wingers in illegally invading Sde Teiman, while hours later the Israeli military's Beit Lid base was also invaded by far-right activists as the nine soldiers were being detained there.[17]

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Beit Lid

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Responses

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Israel

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Various right-wing politicians condemned the Israeli soldiers' detention: Justice Minister Yariv Levin said that "harsh pictures of soldiers being arrested" were "impossible to accept"; National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that the soldiers' detention was "shameful" and asked for "the military authorities to back the fighters … Soldiers need to have our full support"; Economy Minister Nir Barkat declared: "I support our fighters", while criticizing the events as a "show trial"; Transportation Minister Miri Regev commented that the arrests of Israeli soldiers were "dangerous" during war, and warned against military prosecutions that were "appeasing our enemies".[40][41]

Likud politician Hanoch Milwidsky argued in the Knesset in favor of the sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners. Responding to Ta'al politician Ahmad Tibi asking "To insert a stick in a person’s rectum, is that legitimate?", Milwidsky responded "Yes, if he is Nukhba everything is legitimate to do him. Everything."[42][43]

Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara gave her "full backing" to the investigations into the soldiers.[44] Israeli police sources criticized the IDF over a lack of communications during the riots.[45] Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant called for an investigation into Itamar Ben-Gvir alleging that he prevented a response to the riots.[46][47]

Former Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said that the riots "lead us to the abyss and endanger the security of the state and the unity of Israeli society."[48] Opposition leader Yair Lapid condemned the riots stating: “All the red lines were crossed today. MKs and ministers who participated in the invasion of violent militias into military bases constitute a message to the State of Israel: they are done with democracy, they are done with the rule of law."[49] Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that the riots "dismantles our country, the rule of law and the IDF."[50][48]

Head of the Israel Bar Association Amit Becher condemned the riots as "sedition" that "tramples on the rule of law."[51] IDF Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi denounced the riots and stated his support of the investigations.[52]

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Palestine

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Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti called the riots "evidence of the rise of fundamentalist Zionist fascism", saying "The Israeli military establishment is trying to protect itself from the International Criminal Court by conducting formal investigations, but even that does not please Israeli fascists."[70][71] Palestinian politician Qadura Fares called the arrest of the soldiers a "farce" that were "aimed at misleading international public opinion and giving the illusion that Israel is a country governed by the rule of law" and called for a UN investigation into the treatment of Palestinian prisoners.[71]

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Others

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Several commentators compared the events to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[73][74][75][76]

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Aftermath

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On 30 July 2024, one of the detained soldiers was released without charge.[85][86] On 4 August 2024, three of the detained soldiers were released and the detention of five of the soldiers was extended until 6 August 2024.[87][88]

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