The Israeli Military Court sentenced the soldier to seven months in prison after recognizing the difficult abuse of Palestinian detainees from Gaza at the SDE Teiman military detention center.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the reserve, whom he did not appoint it, was convicted of “a few incidents where he hit the detainees with his fists and used weapons while in handcuffs and tied up on their eyes.”
“These works were committed in the presence of other soldiers, some of whom invited him to stop, and even documented on the defendant’s mobile phone,” he added.
Said the Haaretz newspaper He was the first soldier convicted of the abuse of gazans held during the war with Hamas.
He cited the Beit Military Court, saying that the soldier acknowledged three points of difficult abuse and one point of inappropriate behavior as part of an agreement on the recognition of guilt with prosecutors.
They connected with four separate incidents between January and June 2024, when he kept a detainee transportation trucks, according to.
According to Haaretz, the court established an indefinite number of masked soldiers, whose identities remained unknown, also participated in the abuse.
In addition to the prison candidate, the convicted soldier also received a suspended sentence and demolished to the rank of private, according to IDF.
“The soldiers have an obligation to use the force entrusted to them in accordance with IDF values and orders, at any time, and especially during the war,” the IDF said.
The detention SDE Teiman was erected after the start of the Gaza war 15 months ago. Since then, he has been at the center of a report on serious abuse.
In July, the extreme right protesters broke into SDE Teiman after the Israeli military police went there to question the nine reservists who were suspected of raping detainees and caused a dangerous life injury to him. Several reservists were subsequently arrested.
In October, the UN Investigation Commission report claimed that thousands of detainees for children and adults from Gaza “subjected broadly widespread and systematic abuse, physical and psychological violence, and sexual and gender with respect to war crimes and crime against humanity of torture and war crime rape and other forms of sexual violence. “
The Israeli government announced that she had rejected charges of widespread abuse and torture of detainees and insisted that she “was fully dedicated to international legal standards.” He also said he had conducted a thorough investigation into any appeal.
The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 was taken to hostage.
Since then, more than 47,550 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas Territorial Ministry.
According to the Israeli Hamoked Rights Group, 1,802 Palestinians from Gaza are currently held as “illegal fighters” in Israeli prisons. The picture does not include detainees held by the army.
