IDF soldier arrested for executing Hamas terrorist
The young soldier had joined friends in racing to southern Israel on Oct. 7 to battle the invading Gaza hordes.
Israelis were outraged to learn on Tuesday night that a young IDF soldier who had only recently been released from his mandatory service was arrested for allegedly executing a captured Hamas terrorist.
On October 7, the 20-year-old suspect joined several army buddies in racing to southern Israel to help repel the invading Gaza hordes.
Channel 12 News published the following interaction with a police investigator:
Soldier: “On October 7, my friends and I went down south. We saw a fierce battle that was going on between [Israel Police counter-terrorism troops] and the Nukhba [elite Hamas unit] terrorists. Unfortunately, some of our soldiers were killed. We continued to fight and eliminated the terrorists.”
Police investigator: “You yourself interrogated a terrorist in the field, then you shot him in the head. That’s why you’re suspected of murder.”
Soldier: “I did not murder any terrorist, but I eliminated the terrorists who were there and shot at us.”
Protestors gathered outside Wednesday’s hearing to extend the suspect’s remand, shouting “Shame!” and insisting that the young soldier instead deserved a commendation.
Brig.-Gen. (res.) and former Member of Knesset Effi Eitam expressed the mounting frustration in an interview with Israeli media: “A soldier who shot a Nukhba terrorist was arrested on suspicion of murder, while the murderous director of Shifa Hospital is released and sent home to his friends in Gaza in an elegant suit. There is a problem in the legal system. I want to see what the legal system plans to do with the thousands of captured Nukhba terrorists who clearly deserve to be sentenced to death.”
On Monday, the Israel Prison Service released to Gaza a number of captured terrorists, including Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital. Abu Salmiya was arrested when Israeli forces seized control of Shifa late last year, and discovered that not only had the hospital served as a Hamas command center, a number of Israeli hostages had been held and tortured there, and at least one, Noa Marciano, had been murdered while in the hospital’s care.
His unexpected release drew an outcry from Israelis, and denials from top government officials that they had any knowledge of, let alone had ordered Abu Salmiya be set free.
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Sounds like big trouble in Israel. (USA)
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