Protesters and far-right lawmakers from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition stormed two army bases on Monday as tensions soared in Israel over the arrests of soldiers accused of abusing Palestinian prisoners.
In a statement, Netanyahu called for calm and condemned the demonstrators for breaking into Sde Teiman, a desert base in southern Israel. Israel’s defence minister and army chief of staff also spoke out against the march on military sites. The notion of Jewish Israeli demonstrators targeting a military site – particularly during wartime – is a striking development because the army has long been one of Israel’s most trusted institutions.
The protests were sparked by the arrests of soldiers for torture at Sde Teiman, where suspected Hamas fighters who carried out the October 7 attacks are being held. Israel’s military police said they raided Sde Teiman following allegations inmates were subject to “serious abuse”. Later in the evening, the riots spread to Beit Lid, where the soldiers were being detained, according to police. Sde Teiman, where Palestinians captured during the almost 10-month military campaign in Gaza are also held, has been the subject of Supreme Court challenges by human-rights watchdogs alleging intolerable conditions.
According to local media reports, at least nine Israeli soldiers at the base are accused of serious sexual abuse and injuries to a Palestinian's anus that left him unable to walk. Last month, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper published allegations made by a doctor at Sde Teiman that leg amputations had been carried out on two prisoners, because of cuffing injuries. At least 3,380 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held without charge or trial in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian figures.

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