The Israeli military’s top lawyer has resigned after saying that she was responsible for the leaking of a video that purportedly shows soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee last year.

Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the military advocate general, had been on leave since a criminal investigation was launched by police earlier this week into how the surveillance video at the Sde Teiman detention facility was leaked.

“I approved the release of material to the media in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army’s law enforcement authorities,” she said. That is a reference to efforts by some right-wing political figures in Israel to claim that the video and reports of abuse of detainees were fabricated.

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    Leave it to the bbc to call anything about Israel, allegedly, they have been tone deaf for years now.

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      Allegedly the BBC is a terrorist sympathizer organization supporting terrorists such as as the IDF and spreading their propaganda.

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    It’s insane they let a mob break into a military base to free the rapists, and that no one was shot doing it. I don’t understand how that could happen without complicity from the IDF.

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    So unless I’m missing something, she leaked the rape torture recordings not to blow the whistle, but to dispel rumors that they AREN’T horribly abusing their political prisoners?

    And this is the regime that most Western nations still consider an invaluable fucking ally to be defended at any cost?! 🤬