Israel arrested nine soldiers on charges that they raped a Palestinian prisoner so bad that the victim could not walk. The soldiers reportedly resisted arrest by barricading themselves in the detention center and defending themselves with pepper spray but they were eventually taken into custody.
Anyone who has studied Israeli detention of Palestinians knows that this is not new and has been happening since long before October 7. Why arrest these rapists now? Why this victim? Some say that this was intended as a show to the International Criminal Court to prove that Israel could be trusted to hold its soldiers accountable.
That has backfired as protestors are protesting the arrests. Protestors are against… accountability for rape? They are demanding impunity to rape? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the faction that stormed the detention center and called for “immediate calming of spirits.”
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir condemned the arrest of the soldiers as “shameful” and called them the “best heroes.” He said the message to the world should be this: “light treatment of terrorists is over. Soldiers need to have our full support.” In other words: prisoners shall expect to be raped to the point of hospitalization.
That is against all international laws of human rights. Someone wanna tell him that?
