Israel rocked by scandal as top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail
Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the #Israel army’s top lawyer. Now she is behind bars.
The saga was touched off by Tomer-Yerushalmi’s explosive admission that she approved the leak of a video of severe abuse against a Palestinian.
The video shows #IDF soldiers taking a detainee into an area they cordoned off to hide their actions. The indictment said the soldiers sodomized him with a knife.
When military police came to Sde Teiman in July to detain the soldiers, they scuffled with protesters opposed to the arrests. Later, hundreds of violent protesters broke into the detention center.
“Unfortunately, this basic understanding — that there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees — no longer convinces everyone,” Tomer-Yerushalmi wrote.
