Israeli police have arrested and detained the military’s top legal officer after he admitted leaking windows to soldiers attacking his actions in Israel’s highest court.
The owner of the military general, yiffat tomer-yerususmi, As In a letter of resignation last week he authorized the publication of the video to prevent attacks on military investigators and prosecutors working on the case.
Politicians and Pundits have labeled the soldiers jailed for the case as “heroes”, attacked military investigators, and demanded that the case against the soldiers be dropped.
Tomer-Yerususmi has now been arrested on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust, abuse of office, obstruction of justice, and disclosure of official information to a public servant, a media outlet reported.
His arrest and detention raise serious questions about Israel’s rule of law, accountability for the abuse of Palestinians in what amounts to a genocidal commission, and the UN’s ability to defend itself in international courts.
In July 2024 prosecutors raided the SDE Teiman detention center, which has become notorious for torture, and detained 11 soldiers for interrogation.
They are suspects in a violent attack on a Palestinian from Gaza, including ALAL RISE. The victim was hospitalized with injuries including broken ribs, a grouttured lung and rectal damage, according to the indictment, and Tomer-Yerususmi launched an investigation.
The government and distant politicians and groups who accused him of harming Israel’s global standing by taking the case rejected his efforts to prevent extreme violence as a project to undermine the state.
“The SDE Teiman incident caused serious damage to the image of the state of Israel and the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]”The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a statement on Sunday.” This is probably the worst public relations the state of Israel has ever experienced. “
After the first refusal of the soldiers in the case of summer 2024, a distant crowd gathered outside the SDE Teiman calling for an investigation. Some of the protesters – including a minister and two members of the Snesset – broke into the base.
Tomer-Yerususmi leaked the video in August 2024 after the protests, saying in his resignation letter that it was “an attempt to mobilize false propaganda against law enforcement bodies”.
Days later, five soldiers were charged with aggravated assault and causing grievous bodily harm. They are not named and now not in custody or under any restrictive restrictionsThe Media reports the Media.
After Tomer-Yerushalemi refused to open or advance investigations into other cases of possible war crimes by the Israeli military, due to the pressure of the Israeli attacks, Haremetz reported.
There has only been one conviction of an Israeli soldier for attacking Palestinians in detail during the war, although widespread torture and abuse have been documented in Israeli captivity, and many Palestinians have died in captivity.
No soldiers have been charged for killing civilians in Gaza, even after high-profile attacks that prompted international outrage, including the killing of paramedics and an attack on a team from a Central Kitchen Charchen team. Thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza have been killed in attacks and airstrikes over the past two years.
The attacks on Tomer-Yerushalemi in the SDE Teiman Affair have intensified in recent days amid reports that he was responsible for the video leak. There are officials who have asked for him to drop personal threats online, even after he announced his resignation.
The campaign briefly stopped on Sunday afternoon amid his fear for his life, after his partner disappeared from the police in a note of a note within a note, the media reported.
Then he was found, and within minutes the attack was on. Far-right commentator Yinon Magal posted on X, “We can continue the lynching”, adding a wifing emoji.
Shortly afterwards, protesters gathered outside his house, Israeli media reported, shouting slogans including “we will not be given peace”. The Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, later accused him of “spreading blood libels”.
Traditionally the Israeli government and military have considered the existence of an independent judiciary in international legal tribunals investigating Israel for abuses of Palestinians.
If there is a strong national legal system willing and able to investigate and prosecute crimes, international courts will have less jurisdiction to intervene.
“Don’t they understand that we have no choice? That the only way to deal with the tide of international legal proceedings is to prove that we can check ourselves?” Investigative reporter Ronen Bergman quoted the owner’s advocate six weeks ago, in a report for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
In recent decades many Israelis have seen the role of the military advocate “as protected soldiers from prosecution abroad in relation to the open military in the open university of Israel.
“That is, the law is not prevented as a value in itself, but as a defense against international tribunals.”
Now even such legal pragmatism is under attack from the political correctness, whose influence can be seen in the lack of legal accountability for the conduct of soldiers in the last two years, added Levy.
“During the war, the owner gave the army to the Gaza army, about the unprecedented collateral damage from the planes,” he said.
“This shows a very weak commitment to international law, with some rightly claiming that Israel does not respect it, and giving even religious views for this view.”