Israel extends the detention of the former military prosecutor
An Israeli police source told Reuters on Wednesday that the authorities in Tel Aviv extended the detention of former military prosecutor, Major General Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, until Friday.
Tomer Yerushalmi resigned last week due to a criminal investigation into the leak of a video clip that documented soldiers brutally torturing a Palestinian detainee who was detained during the war on Gaza.
On Sunday, she was reported to have briefly disappeared, but was later found and then detained by authorities.
The public prosecutor said she resigned because she agreed to leak the video in August 2024.
The video appeared during an investigation into abuses that led to the Israeli military prosecutor issuing indictments against five reservists, saying they had committed serious abuses that led to serious injuries to a prisoner. A Palestinian in an Israeli prison, including broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a ruptured rectum.
Right-wing politicians denounced the investigation, while demonstrators stormed two military compounds after investigators requested that soldiers be summoned for questioning in the case.
A week after the storming of the two compounds, a video clip from a security camera was leaked to the Hebrew Channel 12 news showing footage of the assault on the Palestinian prisoner.
The clip shows soldiers taking a prisoner aside. They gather around him, holding a dog, and blocking the view of their actions with their own equipment.
Tomer Yerushalmi said that by doing so, she tried to repel negative propaganda against the army’s legal department, which is charged with upholding the rule of law.
Organizations concerned with defending rights reported the occurrence of serious violations against Palestinians in Israeli detention centers during the war. The Israeli army says it is investigating dozens of cases, but claims that the violations are not systematic.
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