{"id":306872,"date":"2025-11-10T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=306872"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:39:18","slug":"leaked-video-of-idf-soldiers-raping-palestinian-prisoner-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/leaked-video-of-idf-soldiers-raping-palestinian-prisoner-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Video of IDF Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Netanyahu: Leaked Video of IDF Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner Is \u2018Most Serious Public-Relations\u2019 Attack on Israel<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>2 Nov 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/pm-palestinian-prisoner-abuse-video-leak-most-serious-pr-attack-against-israel-to-date\/\" >said today<\/a>\u00a0that the leak of a video allegedly showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sede Teiman detentions facility last year was the \u201cmost serious public-relations attack\u201d Israel has ever experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s comments came after Israel\u2019s top military prosecutor, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, admitted to approving the leak of the video and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/military-prosecutor-resignation-leak-sde-teiman-abuse-tomer-304deb724067c3644a02dcc0590e703a\" >resigned from her post<\/a>\u00a0amid outrage and criticism from Israelis who are accusing her of betraying the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is perhaps the most serious public relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding \u2014 I cannot recall one so concentrated and intense,\u201d Netanyahu said. \u201cThis requires an independent and impartial inquiry, and I expect that such an investigation will indeed take place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Footage Released Accusing Israeli Soldiers Of Abusing Palestinian Prisoner | 10 News First\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPG11lTQIw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israel says arrested ex-military prosecutor after leaked abuse video \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/otXRSx6casw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israeli media airs surveillance footage showing abuse of Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teiman\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NGVzXhQGrZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video was leaked last year after Israeli soldiers\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2024\/07\/29\/israeli-police-detain-soldiers-suspected-of-raping-a-palestinian-sparking-protests\/\" >were arrested by military police<\/a>\u00a0on suspicion of raping the Palestinian prisoner, and far-right Israelis, including members of the Knesset and government, stormed Sde Teiman in protest of the arrests. Tomer-Yerushalmi said the video was leaked in response to the criticism of the Israeli military for detaining the soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, this basic understanding \u2014 that there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees \u2014 no longer convinces everyone,\u201d she said in a resignation letter.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli government officials haven\u2019t offered criticism of the severe abuse of the Palestinian prisoner, just of the fact that the video was leaked. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has called the leak a \u201cblood libel\u201d against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the controversy over the leak, lawyers representing the five Israeli reservists who have been indicted for abusing the prisoner are\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/02\/world\/middleeast\/abuse-case-israeli-soldiers-dismissal.html\" >calling for the charges to be dropped<\/a>. The soldiers have been indicted for \u201csevere abuse\u201d but not for rape or sexual assault, despite the indictment saying that a soldier stabbed the Palestinian with a \u201csharp object\u201d that caused a tear in his rectal wall.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli media reports at the time, the Palestinian prisoner was admitted to the hospital with an injury to his anus so severe that he couldn\u2019t walk. According to\u00a0<em>Haaretz<\/em>, the victim\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-appoint-new-army-lawyer-after-palestinian-detainee-rape-video-scandal\" >suffered a ruptured bowel<\/a>, severe anal and lung injuries, broken ribs. and required surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Dave DeCamp is the news editor of<\/em> antiwar.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/netanyahu-says-leak-of-video-showing-idf-soldiers-raping-palestinian-prisoner-was-the-most-serious-public-relations-attack-on-israel\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; defenddemocracy.press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Nov 2025 &#8211; Netanyahu: Leaked Video Is \u2018Most Serious Public-Relations\u2019 Attack on Israel &#8211; Comments came after Israel\u2019s top military prosecutor admitted to approving the leak and\u00a0resigned from her post\u00a0amid outrage from Israelis accusing her of treason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1854,3264,88,2416,2418,2114,2759,2268,2159,880,572,965],"class_list":["post-306872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-palestinian-rights","tag-pariah-state","tag-prisons","tag-rape","tag-rogue-states","tag-state-terrorism","tag-torture","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306892,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306872\/revisions\/306892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}