The organization Honenu – Israel Zionist Legal Aid organization issued a statement condemning what it described as "six months of harm to the honor of the IDF." According to the authors, "instead of standing by the soldiers, the Military Prosecution has become a tool for attacking fighters who acted for the security of the state."
It turns out that the state has requested a fourth extension to file a defense in response to a lawsuit filed by fighters imprisoned by Force 100 – a unit established after the October 7 massacre to guard thousands of terrorists, including hundreds of Nukhba terrorists (the elite unit of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas) captured by the IDF in the Gaza Strip – regarding the Sde Teiman Affair.
The investigation, however long it takes, is essential and necessary – preferably sooner rather than later – so that the IDF can be cleansed of any stain of immoral, inhumane, and illegal behavior that has clung to it.
The norms that bind every soldier and commander in the Spirit of the IDF should not be derived from the barbaric behavior of our enemies (or, for that matter, from "Torah law").
The claim by the Honenu organization that the military justice system "learned nothing from the horrifying massacre we experienced and prefers a harsh hand against soldiers rather than dealing with murderers who committed atrocities," is not relevant.
"Public support for the fighters" needs not and cannot be unconditional. Anyone who deviates from the Spirit of the IDF, the orders of the army and its commanders, must be held accountable.
