‘Deep moral deterioration’ is being normalised in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘Deep moral deterioration’ is being normalised in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli ministers and military protests at arrests for torture and assault of Palestinians shows diminishing respect for rule of law and human dignity

The far-right mob attack on two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bases in defence of soldiers accused of sexually torturing a detainee did not come out of the blue; the parallels to a 2016 incident were immediately obvious.

In March that year, Elor Azaria, an IDF soldier serving in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, calmly walked over to Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, an injured Palestinian knife attacker lying on the ground, and shot him in the head. A video of the killing released by a human rights group led to political uproar.

Both the political and military establishments in Israel have been willing to deny or turn a blind eye to the repeated allegations of torture at Sde Teiman

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