Israeli troops who (allegedly) almost raped a prisoner to death claim they’re the victims

Content warning: this article contains discussions of rape and sexual assault, which some readers may find upsetting

Israeli troops who (allegedly) raped a bound Palestinian prisoner so brutally that he almost died have appeared, masked, on Israeli TV to demand ‘justice’ and criticise those who condemned their actions and “tried to break us”.

Zionist Israelis are always the victim – even when it comes to rape they perpetrated

Their victim’s injuries were so severe that he almost died – and the senior military lawyer who leaked video of the crime has been arrested for causing Israel what wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu described as Israel’s worst ‘PR’ crisis.

But the men – three of the five accused perpetrators – are horrified at the supposed injustice of the charges against them, because they “defended the home and only thanks to [us] are we all here today”:

On Israeli Channel 12 last week journalist Guy Peleg, who published the original video of the gang rape, read out horrific details of the injuries the rapists inflicted on their victim, as they are laid out in the indictment against them. A panel member tried to stop him, saying it was “like playing that video again”:

Defendants kicked, stomped… used a taser… stabbed the detainee in the buttocks with a sharp object… caused a tear in the rectal wall… Ordered the detainee to put a club in his mouth.

Peleg has been targeted by Israeli right-wing media and politicians since publishing the video and has received death threats. The incident for which the five soldiers have been charged is just one out of dozens, even hundreds, of such incidents of sexual violence and torture perpetrated against civilian Palestinian abductees.

But Israel is always the victim.

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