Israel military lawyer quits after admitting to leaking footage of gang-rape by soldiers

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43% : READ | Hamas returns 3 more bodies under fragile Israel truce, calls on Red Cross to help recover remains According to medical information obtained by the Israeli daily Haaretz, the victim suffered a ruptured bowel, severe anal and lung injuries, and broken ribs as a result of the assault.
40% : Israel's hard-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir appeared to address Tomer-Yerushalmi directly in July 2024, writing in Hebrew: "The Military Advocate General, take your hands off the reservists!" referring to the soldiers accused of rape.
39% : Returning to social media during the furore following the rape, Smotrich chose to ignore the credible accusations of rape and instead called for "an immediate criminal investigation to locate the leakers of the trending video that was intended to harm the reservists and that caused tremendous damage to Israel in the world, and to exhaust the full severity of the law against them". How have the critics reacted to Tomer-Yerushalmi's resignation? Many of the loudest voices in defending the alleged rapists were equally vocal in welcoming the resignation of the woman responsible for sharing evidence of that rape.
39% : The same UN report that examined the reduced indictment against the soldiers also noted that detainees at Sde Teiman - including children - were regularly shackled, forced into stress positions, denied toilets and showers and beaten.
38% : A number of Israel's far-right politicians, including Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, were among those who stormed the Sde Teiman prison in protest at the arrest of the soldiers for rape.
38% : Ben-Gvir was no less critical of Israel's judicial system in the leaking of the footage, writing: "All those involved in the affair must be held accountable.
36% : Have other crimes been committed at Sde Teiman against Palestinians? At least 135 of the mutilated bodies returned to Palestinian officials in Gaza by Israel last week as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, had been held at Sde Teiman, documents that accompanied each corpse showed.
33% : Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of the military court building and stage a protest against the arrest of nine soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert, in Netanya, Israel. *
30% : Writing on social media hours after Tomer-Yerushalmi's resignation, Smotrich accused her and much of Israel's judicial system of rank corruption, as well as launching what he called an "antisemitic blood libel" against their military.
29% : A United Nations commission, reviewing the change of indictment and other instances of Israel's use of sexual and gender-based violence, determined that the decision to downgrade the indictments, despite the evidence, "will inevitably result in a more lenient punishment" if there is a conviction.

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