Israel, raping Palestinian prisoners is justified. Leaking the footage is betrayal

When a video surfaced last year showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner, the outrage in Israel was immediate - but not over the crime.

Instead, the fury was directed at the leak.

Last week, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi stepped down as the Israeli army’s lawyer after confirming her involvement in leaking CCTV footage from inside the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

In the footage, heavily armed Israeli soldiers can be seen grabbing and leading away a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner before surrounding him with riot shields to obscure their gang rape.

The Palestinian man, who, according to some reports, has since been sent back to Gaza, suffered an injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs.

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