This is a new affair that is causing a stir in Israel. Female soldiers serving in the military as prison guards had sexual relations with a Palestinian inmate convicted of a “terrorist attack.” The end of the service of female soldiers in detention centers was immediately decided. It remains to replace them, which, it seems, is not an easy task.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,Michael Paul
They are five soldiers and are carrying out their military service as “prison guards”. They are suspected of having had intimate relations with a Palestinian security detainee who was a member of Fatah, a nationalist political party, and convicted of an attack that caused the deaths of several Israelis. One of the young women is said to have had a consensual relationship with the prisoner. The others would have acted under threat, their lawyers indicate.
A similar case last year
The Israeli prison administration and the responsible minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, the leader of the racist and homophobic Jewish Force party, announced that from now on, it will no longer be possible for these female soldiers to serve in a prison during their military service. To replace the contingent’s recruits, they are looking for 1,000 jailers with, they say, zero tolerance for this type of affair.
The media in Israel, however, recall that, last year, an investigation was opened into similar facts. It was notably linked to sexual assaults on female soldiers of the contingent in the Palestinian security detainees division. Some of them even claimed to have been prostituted by their colleagues to keep the prisoners calm.