Meir Ben-Shitrit was the main suspect in the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman prison. CCTV footage showed Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting the prisoner.

Instead of being treated as a criminal, Ben-Shitrit appeared on Channel 14, a right-wing Israeli TV channel. He was the star guest on a satire program. The hosts interviewed him for over ten minutes and showed sympathy for him. He told them that the military prosecution and the country should "kiss the hands" of soldiers doing a "sacred work."

He also said: "We could have loaded our weapons and killed them all on the floor." One host defended him, saying he would do the same. Later, in 2026, Israeli authorities dropped the charges against the soldiers. This shows a society that celebrates rapists and protects them from justice.

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The case centred on a July 5, 2024 assault by soldiers from the Force 100 unit on a Palestinian detainee from Gaza who was hospitalized with terrible injuries, including severe rectal damage—due to being stabbed in the rectum with a sharp object. Sde Teiman, located in the Negev desert near the Gaza border, has become synonymous with the torture and abuse of Palestinians captured during Israel’s assault on Gaza.

As the World Socialist Web Site reported, the prisoner “had been raped so violently that he had to be transferred to a hospital… for treatment for severe injury to his anus, a ruptured bowel, lung damage, and broken ribs that left him unable to walk.” The soldiers wore masks as they carried out a war crime, with the view of an overhead camera at the facility deliberately obscured by a group of soldiers holding up riot shields.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/16/zwnp-m16.html

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