Israeli police have launched a search for former military prosecutor Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi, who has gone missing after admitting that she was the source of a leaked video that showed Israeli troops raping a Palestinian abductee at Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp. Yerushalmi resigned her post yesterday after her admission.
Yerushalmi: missing
According to Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth, Yerushalmi has been missing for several hours and police found her abandoned car at a Tel Aviv beach early this morning. Israeli media report that she had left a letter inside the car and some have reported that she also left a suicide note at her home.
A senior police source told Haaretz there are serious concerns for her life – but the disappearance also raises the possibility that the Israeli regime wanted a clean end to the situation that prevented her being able to testify at the trial that was likely to follow her admission.
Yerushalmi’s disappearance came just a few hours after Israel’s wanted war criminal PM Benjamin Netanyahu described her leak as “the most dangerous propaganda attack in Israel’s history.”
The source of the Panama Papers remains anonymous and there is no indication he has been murdered; he subsequently released statements (as “John Doe”) which were authenticated by some of the journalists he leaked to.
You’re probably thinking of Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak, two journalists who were murdered for their reporting about them.
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Thank you for the correction.