Jerusalem – An Israeli soldier who killed Palestinian detainees when they were stopped and blindfolded, sentenced to seven months in prison by an Israeli military court.
On Thursday, the Israeli army announced that the court had accepted a request for a request with the military, a reserve that said that Palestinian detainees at the SDE Teman Military Detention Center near the Gaza Strip ” He has been admitted to “severe abuse.”
The army said, “The defendant was convicted of several incidents in which he targeted his fists and detained people with his weapons while he was bound and blindfolded.” He did not name the soldier, nor did the details of the allegations that he was sentenced.
The military statement did not indicate where the Palestinian detainees were from, why they were detained or since then they were charged with crimes or they were convicted or detained. Was released
In addition to seven months’ imprisonment, the court sentenced the soldier suspended and left him to a private post. The army said the soldier served as a security guard at the detention center but did not say what position he had held. Israeli media reported that the soldier’s prison sentence also included the time he had already been in custody.
The military court found that other masked soldiers had participated in the abuse but their identity had not been determined, the army said, without how many people said.
The army said that the convicted soldier defeated detainees in front of other soldiers, some of whom asked him to stop, adding that a recording of abuse was found on the mobile phone of the convicted soldier.
The army has been investigating the allegations of Gaza’s abuse of Palestinians in military custody since the beginning of the war in October 2023. On Thursday, the army did not say that investigations were still underway or another soldier was charged.
In July last year, right -wing Israeli protesters entered the SDE Teman detention facility and another Israeli military compound after investigators questioned soldiers about the suspected abuse.
After the war began, SDE Taman was opened and Palestinians were arrested from Gaza. Israel had said last year that it would stop the facility.
