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A member of the Israeli Knesset has defended the idea of raping
Palestinian prisoners after Israeli soldiers suspected of sexually
torturing a detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility were
arrested.

The arrest took place on Monday, sparking protests from far-right
activists, including several members of the Knesset and at least one
minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.

In a meeting of lawmakers on the day of the arrest, Hanoch Milwidsky,
a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, was asked if it was legitimate
“to insert a stick into a person’s rectum?”

Milwidsky replied, “Yes! If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant],
everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”

According to Haaretz, the Palestinian prisoner who was raped suffered
from a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage, and
broken ribs and was taken to the hospital for an operation.

The Times of Israel reported that two out of the ten soldiers arrested
for the rape were released on Wednesday and that they were not the
main suspects. The report also said that Honenu, a legal aid
organization representing four of the soldiers, claimed the soldiers
were acting in self-defense when they forcibly sodomized the
Palestinian prisoner.

The condition of the prisoner confirms some of the worst allegations
made by Palestinians who were previously held in Sde Teiman. Younis
al-Hamlawi, a senior nurse who was detained by Israeli forces in Gaza
after he left Al-Shifa Hospital over allegations that he was tied to
Hamas, told The New York Times that Israeli soldiers penetrated his
rectum with a metal stick, causing him to bleed and leaving him in
“unbearable pain.”

The Times report said a leaked report from the UN “cited a 41-year-old
detainee who said that interrogators ‘made me sit on something like a
hot metal stick and it felt like fire,’ and also said that another
detainee ‘died after they put the electric stick up’ his anus.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/07/31/israeli-lawmaker-says-raping-palestinian-prisoners-is-legitimate/

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