Thursday, August 01, 2024
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Tel Aviv, August 4 - Israel's chief military prosecutor announced today that she intends to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Manhattan District Attorney the cases of Israeli military personnel who, prosecutors allege, engaged in physical and sexual abuse of Hamas militants who invaded the country on October 7 of last year on a murder, looting, kidnapping, torture, and rape rampage, with the case now all but assured to end with no formal indictment of the men because the Manhattan prosecutor's policy favors not prosecuting violent crimes.
Military Advocate General Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi issued a notice this morning that her office will move nine soldiers, who stand accused of torturing terrorists captured on October 7, to New York City, to face potential prosecution there and not in Israel, under Alvin Bragg. There, she noted, criminal offenders of the most unpleasant sort face routine release and dropped charges, unless they carry the name Donald Trump.
"We have already begun filing the paperwork," she disclosed. "Under current procedures, the process takes two to three weeks at most. Military police will escort the accused to Manhattan where New York authorities will take them into custody. From that point, given the precedent of the District Attorney there, we expect the men to face arraignment, a setting of bail if the presiding judge so orders, followed by a withdrawal of the DA from the case and the return of the accused to Israel."
The nine men face accusations that they sexually, psychologically, and physically tortured Hamas terrorists whom they were guarding after the latter fell captive amid the IDF and civilian response to Hamas's "Al-Aqsa Flood" invasion of southern Israel last October. The operation claimed the lives of about 1200 Israelis and injured thousands more, in addition to mass rape and the kidnapping of about 250 Israelis into the Gaza Strip. More than a hundred hostages or bodies of hostages still remain in Gaza following several negotiated releases and a few IDF operations to rescue hostages or retrieve bodies.
Right-wing Israelis, egged on by certain political figures, attempted to storm the facilities earlier this week where the nine men were held, demonstrating against the attitude that the terrorists have any remaining humanity, and therefore human rights - or at the very least postponing any inquiries into the torture allegations until after the war against Hamas has wound down. MAG Tomer-Yerushalmi acknowledged she might consider dropping charges against some of those arrested for the riot if they identify as the traditionally-immune anti-Netanyahu protesters.
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