Knesset member says Israeli military legal office a ‘criminal organisation’

Israeli politician Moshe Saada, who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud party, on Monday said that the Military Advocate General’s Office in Israel “has turned into a criminal organisation”, the Times of Israel reported. 

Saada said that wveryone including the prosecutor’s office "maintained a bond of silence." 

Former military advocate general Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is currently being investigated for the leak of footage showing Israeli troops raping a Palestinain detainee. 

Saada said that “you can’t have an attorney general who has a conflict of interest and sits with ministers for consultations in the mornings and works on indicting them in the evenings."