Israeli Troops Held for Questioning in Prisoner Abuse Investigation

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******** Troops Held for Questioning in Prisoner ****** Investigation

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who had forced their way into the Beit Lid base, where *******’s military courts and military police are headquartered, and where the reservists were taken for questioning. Some broke into the court building at Beit Lid.

The confrontation underscored how emboldened *******’s far right has become. Among the protesters at Sde Teiman was at least one far-right lawmaker, Zvi Sukkot of the Religious Zionist Party, who could be seen in

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squeezing into the base through a gate as a uniformed man tried to push him back. And *******’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, said soldiers must not be arrested like “**********.”

“I’m calling on the chief military prosecutor, get your hands off the reservists,” Mr. Smotrich wrote on X.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a different tone in a brief statement, calling for calm at Sde Teiman and saying that he “strongly condemns the break-in.”

Military leaders and the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, emphasized the need to maintain law and order.

“Even in difficult times, the law applies to everyone,” Mr. Gallant said in a statement. “Nobody may trespass into I.D.F. bases or violate the laws of the State of *******,” he added, using the abbreviation for the ******** Defense Forces.

Sde Teiman is where the vast majority of detainees from Gaza have been interrogated or housed since the war began. Detention practices there have drawn repeated accusations that ******* is mistreating and abusing ************ prisoners.

Some in ******* said the protest and break-in added weight to allegations that ******** forces had little regard for the law when it came to detainees from Gaza, who include people later determined to have no ties to ****** or other armed groups. In interviews, former detainees at Sde Teiman have described beatings and other physical ******.

Soldiers at the base “were acting outside any law — first in their treatment of detainees, and now toward military law enforcement agents,” the Public Committee Against ********, an ******** human rights group, said in a statement. Far-right leaders’ support for the detained reservists, they added, is “emblematic of the root causes that enable such ****** to happen in the first place.”

Vivian Yee reported from Cairo, and Johnatan Reiss from Tel Aviv and Gabby Sobelman from Jerusalem.

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