Violent demonstrations following the arrest of nine Israeli soldiers for allegedly sexually abusing a Palestinian prisoner caused verbal clashes on Tuesday between Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The arrest of the uniformed men, which occurred on Monday, caused such effervescence in Israeli society that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to call for an “immediate calm of tempers.”
However, Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich raised spirits among their followers. Hundreds of them held violent demonstrations at two Israeli military installations, which they entered by force despite the presence of soldiers and police.
This Tuesday, the minister Gallant sent a letter to Netanyahu urging him to investigate whether Ben Gvir, who controls the Israel Police and Prison Service, ordered police officers not to interfere with the invasion of military bases by his far-right followers.
“I ask you to act with a strong hand against the members of the coalition who participated in the riots and order an investigation to examine whether the Minister of National Security prevented or delayed the Police response,” Gallant wrote in the letter, published by the media. local.
“The intrusion of civilians into Army bases is an event that seriously damages Israeli democracy and plays into the hands of our enemy during the war,” the Defense Minister wrote on the X social network.
For his part, Ben Gvir responded on the same social network this Tuesday, ensuring that he asked Netanyahu to verify whether Gallant “was aware of the events of October 7 and did not send troops to the area”.
In addition, Ben Gvir described Gallant's concerns as “unfounded” and accuses him of working with “opposition elements” to overthrow the Government, made up of right-wing, extreme right-wing and ultra-orthodox religious parties.
This same Tuesday, the leader of the opposition, former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, said he had requested an “urgent” hearing in Parliament on the violent demonstrations, which considered “a serious threat to the image of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic State.”
Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee met this morning for a confidential meeting about the case, according to local press.
Immigration Minister Ofir Sofer, of Smotrich's Religious Zionism party, told Army Radio that He believes that far-right leaders underestimated how far the protests would go, and criticized the arrests of soldiers.
This afternoon the nine arrested soldiers are expected to appear before a military court, at Camp Gur, in Beit Lid, in the center of the country, one of the military bases that was attacked yesterday by protesters.
Thus, the IDF placed a checkpoint on the road leading to that base, erected a fence at the entrance to the military court and dozens of police officers were deployed.
The arrest of the soldiers occurred after the Military Prosecutor General opened an investigation “after alleged substantial abuses against a detainee held in the Sde Teiman detention center,” a prison located in the southern Negev desert.
Israel's Supreme Court of Justice announced Tuesday that it will hold a second hearing on August 7 to examine the petition demanding the closure of Sde Teiman.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.
If it is true what Israel's soldiers allegedly did to the so-called Palestinians, then they have to be tried and determined whether or not they are guilty. If they are, they have to pay the consequences, because otherwise the soldiers would not be better but worse than the terrorists, murderers and corrupt of Hamas.
The top of the army taken over by leftists of extreme naivety.
Is there anyone in Israel, who, if the nonsense of the Irani N12 channel reporter were true, would care about the fate of an October 7 terrorist?